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Chicago-born Joan Edlis has been living and working in London since 2001 and will be a UK citizen in 2009
Commissions & ProjectsJuly 2008 Commissioned by International Corporate Art to provide two works for the Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas ship spa
December 2007 Commissioned by C4RD for Artist’s Editions print
July 2004 WishNet Project Year 2, funded by Arts Council England (ACE) in partnership with Response Community Center and RBS as part of Earl’s Court Festival, collaboration with Icelandic artist Illur Magnusson
November 2003, Hidden Lives, funded by ACE with Café Gallery Project, Southwark Park and two South London Schools, assistant to artist at school workshops.
July 2003, Wishes Project Year 1, funded by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in partnership with Response Community Center and RBS as part of Earl’s Court Festival, collaboration with Icelandic artist Illur Magnusson
January 2003, Hand Held Workshop, RBS Gallery, an Open Age Project at the RBS, Community Education Provider for the Kensington and Chelsea Life Long Learning Program assistant to artist
Selected Exhibitions
Solo shows
February 2007, ‘Cornell Reversed’, Chelsea Arts Club, London
December 2006, ‘Confluences', Cambridge Arts, Cambridge Buddhist Center
January 2006 FiveSevenTen, London
October 2005 ‘The Arc of My Wrist’,
Govett Kerr Gallery, Hoxton Square, London
Group shows in UK and Paris including
August 2009 C4RD Open Studios
June 2009 'Sixth Sense', Gallery 6, London, Pop-up show, Sandra Higgens Fine Art
February 2009 'Shibui', C4RD Collaborative exhibition
August 2008 The Threadneedle Figurative Prize exhibition, Mall Galleries
July 2008 C4RD Artist’s Editions exhibition
December 2007 Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD) Relaunch Exhibition
July 2007 Abbey House Gardens, Malmesbury, Summer Exhibition Royal Society of British Sculptors, group show (catalogue)
April 2007 Cambridge Arts, Cambridge Buddhist Centre, ‘Garland#12’, collaborative exhibition
July 2005 The Ragged School Museum, London ‘Open Desk After School’(catalogue)
June 2005 Harold Martin Botanic Gardens, Leicester University, ‘Sculpture in the Garden: a Celebration of the RBS Centenary’ (catalogue)
May 2005 Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA), Middlesex University, Hertfordshire, ‘Grounds for Design’
March 2005 37th Salon Ile de France, Bourg la Reine, Paris (catalogue)
November 2004 The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London (catalogue)
October 2004 Sefton Open Exhibition 2004, The Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, Merseyside
December 2003 Great Western Studios, London, Open Studio Days
November 2003 Bermondsey Artists’ Group/Café Gallery Project, Southwark Park, XIX Open Exhibition
April 2003 MoDA, Middlesex University, ‘Outsized’
April 2002 RBS Annual Summer Exhibition, London, selected by Richard Cork
Education
MA Fine Arts (studio-based practice) City & Guilds of London Art School
Dip English Gardening School, London
BFA Industrial Design, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champagne, USA
Professional Affiliations
ARBS
In 2002 I was accepted as an Associate of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, elected a Trustee in 2003 and subsequently elected to the Exhibition Selection Committee in 2006, concurrent with my duties as Trustee. I stepped down after serving for four years.
Bibliography
Sept 2008, House & Gardens, editorial commentary ‘Garden Solutions’
May 2007, House & Gardens, mentioned as landscape designer in editorial content
May 2005, Home UK, Helen Kirwan-Taylor, Conran Octopus
April 2005, Journal of Society of Garden Designers, review of Chicago’s Millennium Sculpture Park
December 2004, Journal of Society of Garden Designers, ‘Review of the Year Selected Elements’
February 2003, Marie Claire, editorial content, sculpture
December 2002, Journal of Society of Garden Designers, review installation of ‘Art in the Garden’, Chelsea Physic Garden, London