"My current practice looks beyond the suffering and the stories to create
a sense of hope and freedom. Empowering others through workshops which focus on
wellbeing and inner strength is an integral part of my practice. Through my own
work I invite others to seek out small moments of beauty and to find calmness
and solace in the safe and magical space that creativity offers in our most
difficult moments."
Alix Edwards is a
multi-platform artist who combines photography, painting, text, installation,
spoken word to give a voice Alix Edwards is a multiplatform artist, writer and
facilitator based in Cardiff, Wales. Alix
Edwards uses photography,
large-scale paintings and spoken word to
explore untold histories, resilience, loss and shame. She has an MA in Creative Writing from
Goldsmiths, London and an MA in photography from Central Saint Martin’s. Her art has been exhibited in
England, Wales, Spain and LA and her poetry has appeared in many publications
including Penny Thoughts, Poetry Wales,
Marble Magazine, Haus Arrest and Cardiff
Review.
In 2019 Alix received an Arts Council Wales
bursary to explore Magdalene laundries in Wales. A survivor of dv, Alix
participated in Representing Wales 2022-3 and wrote a poetry pamphlet that challenges assumptions
about domestic abuse with mentorship from Rhian Edwards. In 2018 she set up Company of Words events
to encourage those new to writing to perform their work. Her mission is to
empower people through connecting with their creativity, and she has run arts
projects with the Salvation Army, Women’s Aid. FiLiA and Treorchy Time Capsule. During her
childhood Alix was a carer for her father and recently created a series of
artworks and poems with Cardiff Metropolitan University to raise awareness
about diabetic neuropathy. She is working
on a YA novel set in Cardiff, Wales and a thriller about the disappearance of
teenage girls on the Mexican border. She loves walking barefoot on the sand, swimming in
the sea, dancing to salsa music and baking chocolate cake.
To find out more:
www.curatorspace.com/artists/AlixEdwards
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