About
Rhys Edwards is an artist, curator, and critic.
Through drawing and painting, he seeks to articulate the anxieties and paradoxes of the unknown, the fragmentary, and the abject. Informed by academic painting and drawing techniques, each artwork employs mundane materials, found imagery sourced from art-historical subjects and virtual environments, or speculative forms derived from imagination. His practice is informed by studies in mysticism, object-oriented ontology, surrealism, and the digital sublime. His work is motivated by a will towards representation.
Rhys was a finalist for the 2019 Salt Spring National Art Prize, and was selected for the RBC Emerging Artists Program. His writing has appeared in White Hot Magazine, Canadian Art, C Magazine, and The Capilano Review.
He lives and works on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, Kwantlen, Katzie, and Semiahmoo nations.