Mark Edwards in conversation with Jevan Watkins Jones

Mark Edwards discusses 'Countless Edens' his current exhibition of photographs of the house and garden of the late writer Ronald Blythe, with Artist & gardener Jevan Watkins Jones.

Jevan will be speaking with Mark about his relationship to Ronald and the garden at Bottengoms; the camera as mediator; Mark’s artistic and technical processes and the idea of absence, loss and the lament in nature.

Mark Edwards

Mark Edwards was born in 1965. He studied photography at De Montfort University, Leicester between 1997–98, since when he has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions in the UK. Shows include 'These Valued Landscapes', a group exhibition at Oriel Davies Gallery, Powys (2008–09); and 'Disturbances', a solo show at BCA Gallery, Bedford (2005). In 2008 Edwards participated in the Fourth Lianzhou International Photo Festival in China, with a joint exhibition shared with Nadav Kander. Works by Edwards are represented in the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), London, as well as several private collections. In 2007 he was commissioned by the V&A to produce The V&A 150th Anniversary Album. Recent exhibitions include 'The Ground on Which We Walk' at the Waterfront Gallery, University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich and 'Island Stories; Fifty Years of Photography in Britain', V & A Museum, London (both 2013). His exhibition at the Minories runs until 11 February 2024.