Nettie Edwards

Nettie Edwards: Artist, designer, educator, independent researcher, writer. Born Birmingham UK, 1959 Nettie was awarded a 1st Class Honours degree in Theatre Design, a career she persued for 25 years, including designs for the Royal National Theatre, London. She was awarded a gold medal at the The 1997 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. Going to on to persue a career as a socially engaged artist. Her research, photography and video work with English Gypsy and Traveller families was awarded a pestigious Wingate Scholarship. In 2009, Nettie began working with the iPhone as a creative tool. She wrote first ever published iPhone Art tutorial and ran the first iPhone workshop (at Photofilia Studios in Birmingham, UK). Her work has been exhibited widely, both internationally and in the UK Including The Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, Reclaim Photography Festival, Format Festival, Derby; Cork Street Gallry London. For further details see https://lumilyon.wordpress.com/about-2/ She is a named source for study on the Advanced level Art (photography) examination paper in the UK. Awards include: ax3 American Aperture Awards Mobile Photographer of the year 3013, also winner in both Mobile Video and Moving Image, Landscape & Seascape categories in same competition; Winner: Julia Margaret Cameron Awards Fine Art category, Mobile Photography; Lumen Prize for digital art, EyeEm photography Awards; also recognised in IPA bursary, Mira Mobile Photography Prize. She has jurored a number of photography competitions including The Mobile Photography Awards. In 2013 she became interested in how Mobile Photography might be combined with historical and alternative analogue printing. This led her to research the Anthotype process: printing with light sensitive plant-based emulsions. This work is ongoing and now central to her creative practice. Nettie has been Invited to take part in residences throughout Europe and the UK: Lapland, Sweden, France, Italy and The Fox Talbot Museum Lacock Abbey, where she was the first Mobile photographer to exhibit work (Arrangements in Black and Grey: Black and White Photography in the 21st Century) she has given many presentations and run workshops and Masterclasses including Lacock Abbey, Trinity College, Oxford University; Nouvelle Sorbonne, Paris; Belfast Photo Festival; The Natural History Museum London, The Science Museum London, TumobArt Symposium 3, Istanbul 2019, Adobe International Conference 2012, Publications include: European Photography, Black & White Magazine (UK), BBC wildlife magazine, Focus (Netherlands) Couture Mag (UK) FABRIK (USA) The Art of iPhone Photography; Alternative Photographic Processes 2 (2019) by Jill Enfield https://lumilyon.wordpress.com/about-2/ Twitter/instagram @lumilyon https://iphonephotographyschool.com/nettie-edwards/ Anthotypes: hortuslucis.wordpress.com https://youtu.be/UGaxsIpK7vY Crowd sourced endangered tree inventory project instagram & twitter @silent_running_collective

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