Edwina Goldstone (b. 1962. England) is a visual artist working across multiple disciplines, based in Finland since 1994. Through her work she explores the relationships between identity, memory and the geographical imagination, often starting with an archetypal image or object, to explore ideas bound up with memory and cultural recognition. The questions of how we live and particularly how we observe our living are consistent preoccupations. In this it is perhaps in the small gestures of living, in the 'everyday' and in what too easily goes unobserved in the haste of living. Goldstone is interested in creating something sincere and emotionally resonant – even though the artwork might be largely based on the second-hand experience of cultural phenomena. The works involve layering of alternate realities, made up from ‘the imagined’ (the handmade), ‘the real’, and ‘the historical’. Goldstone’s work is known for the use of found objects in her work that are imbued with personal histories and cultural significance.
Goldstone’s work combines many disciplines, from sculptural installations to painting, drawing, lens based media, live art and socially engaged projects. She has a BA in Illustration and Design Communication from the University of Suffolk, School of Art, Design and Humanities, UK and a MA in Fine Arts and conceptual art from Norwich University of the Arts, UK. Her works have been exhibited and presented in Europe; UK, Sweden, France, Finland, Norway and the Middle East; Alexandria, Egypt.
My Work: MOC COLLECTIVE
This series of works examine the lengths and extremes we go through via our hair to conform, or not; to social, cultural, political and personal criteria. Inspired and triggered by a conversation with an artist colleague about our hair, where we shared some self-reflections and essentially me laughing at myself as I wondered how or why I came to wrap up so much of my sense of identity in my hair. My subsequent works are a direct response to socially accepted norms and preconditioned notions of how we see ourselves, how others see us and how we think we should be seen. Addressing issues of identity, gender and objectification by drawing upon my own memories and experiences coupled with gathered collective stories and narratives; historical and personal. The final medium of the works are multidiscipline in their outcomes, preferring to allow the content and nature of the subject matter affect the visual language or direction I come to use. Ranging from the domestic objects utilized in the works `Hair Pieces,’ shown at Third Space 2017 to the morphed drawing sequence shown at Objekti festival 2018.
Goldstone’s work combines many disciplines, from sculptural installations to painting, drawing, lens based media, live art and socially engaged projects. She has a BA in Illustration and Design Communication from the University of Suffolk, School of Art, Design and Humanities, UK and a MA in Fine Arts and conceptual art from Norwich University of the Arts, UK. Her works have been exhibited and presented in Europe; UK, Sweden, France, Finland, Norway and the Middle East; Alexandria, Egypt.
My Work: MOC COLLECTIVE
This series of works examine the lengths and extremes we go through via our hair to conform, or not; to social, cultural, political and personal criteria. Inspired and triggered by a conversation with an artist colleague about our hair, where we shared some self-reflections and essentially me laughing at myself as I wondered how or why I came to wrap up so much of my sense of identity in my hair. My subsequent works are a direct response to socially accepted norms and preconditioned notions of how we see ourselves, how others see us and how we think we should be seen. Addressing issues of identity, gender and objectification by drawing upon my own memories and experiences coupled with gathered collective stories and narratives; historical and personal. The final medium of the works are multidiscipline in their outcomes, preferring to allow the content and nature of the subject matter affect the visual language or direction I come to use. Ranging from the domestic objects utilized in the works `Hair Pieces,’ shown at Third Space 2017 to the morphed drawing sequence shown at Objekti festival 2018.
Extensions & Weaves. 2017
This series of works utilizes domestic objects; specifically those from the kitchen, referencing not only women’s historical place in society but also how the chosen objects/tools are used to either mould or change the consistency of matter, filter out, get rid of the unwanted or are simply used as a means of adding ornamentation and changing shape or colour. All of which we do to ourselves and our hair in varying forms.
This series of works utilizes domestic objects; specifically those from the kitchen, referencing not only women’s historical place in society but also how the chosen objects/tools are used to either mould or change the consistency of matter, filter out, get rid of the unwanted or are simply used as a means of adding ornamentation and changing shape or colour. All of which we do to ourselves and our hair in varying forms.
Watching Me, Watching You, Watching Me. 2018
Watching Me, Watching You, Watching Me, follows the metamorphosis of an image through many stages as it follows the twists and turns of the artist's decision-making and memory process as she recalls and connects past & present conversations about ‘Hair’, with all the ambivalent, contradictory ideas and mixed feelings that are attached to it. Added together as an animated sequence the drawings form a peculiar imaginative narrative that never remains constant but grows and morphs with thought and time.
Watching Me, Watching You, Watching Me, follows the metamorphosis of an image through many stages as it follows the twists and turns of the artist's decision-making and memory process as she recalls and connects past & present conversations about ‘Hair’, with all the ambivalent, contradictory ideas and mixed feelings that are attached to it. Added together as an animated sequence the drawings form a peculiar imaginative narrative that never remains constant but grows and morphs with thought and time.
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