Dominique Edwards

About

Dominique Edwards, is a visual artist based in Cape Town. She works primarily in drawing and sculpture. Her practice is concerned with the making of things, processes involving the shape-shifting and transmutation of material. Anthropomorphised and often described as otherworldly, her sculptures suggest semiotic systems of their own – a relational cosmology familiar to an empathetic memory of known bodies and objects.

Parallel with her practice as an artist, Dominique lectures part-time in drawing, photography and visual art. She holds an MFA from the Michaelis School of Fine Art (2012), a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cape Town (2003) and a BAFA from the University of Stellenbosch (2002). Her solo shows include: The Distance Between Us (2012), Buikspraak|Gutspeak (2015) and Feelthings (2019).

2022 –

Turbine Art Fair, Off the Grid – a pebble in the mouth – curated by Maja Marx, Johannesburg

2022 –

The Phoenix Runway, curated by Reservoir at WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery, Cape Town

2021 –

Art on Paper, Kalk Bay Modern, Cape Town

2020 –

Art on Paper, Kalk Bay Modern, Cape Town

2020 –

Matereality, South African National Gallery, Cape Town

2020 –

Cape Town Art Fair, Guest artist with the Barnard Gallery

2019 –

Spier Light Art Festival, Spier Wine Estate, Stellenbosch

2019 –

Feelthings, Solo Show, Guest artist at the Barnard Gallery

2019 –

Art on Paper, Kalk Bay Modern, Cape Town

2019 –

Monochrome, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town

2018 –

Well Worn, Cavalli, Stellenbosch

2017 –

Nano.1, Barnard Gallery, Newlands, Cape Town

2017 –

Michaelis Student Auction, Smith Gallery, Cape Town

2016 –

Liminal Geographies, Barnard Gallery, Newlands, Cape Town

2016 –

Nano, Barnard Gallery, Newlands, Cape Town

2016 –

Art on Paper, Kalk Bay Modern, Cape Town

2015 –

But he doesn’t have anything on! Commune 1, Cape Town

2015 –

However, Art Hub Studios, London

2015 –

FNB Art Fair, Johannesburg

2015 –

Picture and Paper, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town

2015 –

Buikspraak/Gutspeak, Solo Show, Commune 1, Cape Town

2014 –

Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg

2014 –

Imago Mundi: The Art of Humanity, Treviso, Italy

2014 –

Art on Paper, Kalk Bay Modern, Cape Town

2013 –

Summer Salon, Commune 1, Cape Town

2013 –

Terminal, Curated by Adrienne van Eeden Wharton, Jean Brundrit and Svea Josephy for the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Art’s programme on LAND, Exhibited on street poles throughout Cape Town City Bowl

2013 –

LAND: Barkly West This Place of Mine, presented within the context of the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Art’s seminar programme on small cities and personal narratives, Iziko Slave Lodge, Cape Town

2012 –

Salvo, Commune 1, Cape Town

2012 –

MFA Graduation Exhibition, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town

2012 –

VIP Art Fair, work selected for the first International MFA Online Art fair

2012 –

The Distance Between Us, Solo Show, Commune 1, Cape Town

2011 –

Heimlich Manoeuvres, Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town & The Substation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

2010 –

This is Not Final, Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town & The Substation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

2009 –

Voices, curator for the End Conscription Campaign’s 25th Anniversary, Spier

2007 –

Fine, Rust en Vrede, Durbanville 2003 – Krisp, Art.b, Bellville

2002 –

Section 53 Graduate Exhibition, Department of Fine Art, Stellenbosch University

2002 –

Photo/Art, Cape Town Month of Photography, Stellenbosch University