Your name
Aisling Edwards
Place of birth
Monmouthshire, Wales
Place where you live now
Monmouthshire, Wales
3 words to describe you
Photographer, Sculptor, Environmentalist
Why do you take pictures?
Photography enables me collaborate with the landscape to reveal its narrative through my images and interventions with the land. It challenges me to showcase the notion of how landscape art uncovers more than what meets the eye by documenting moments and creating sculptures that acquiesces to the elements of nature.
Where do you get your inspiration?
I have always been interested in geographical change and the effects of humankind on the environment. It fascinates me how photographs can be used as historical artefacts to document change and I hope one day my work can be used in this way.
Who are your influences?
Fay Godwin, Jem Southam, Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Long and Kurt Jackson
What determines the subject matter you choose?
Through walking in the landscape, I search for topographies that allow me to integrate sculpture into what is already there. Cloud, Dune, Shingle, Broken-Lines was about using spatial awareness, geometry, line and spacing to allow a more conceptual sculpture. Whereas, Six Days used a large, flat area of beach to act as a blank canvas to highlight that this space had something beautiful, simple, timeless and organic about it.
What impact would you like your art to have?
I hope to provoke thought about the environment and about modern day environmental concerns while at the same time engaging them in my art as a photographer.
What artwork do you never get bored with?
Black and White
Is there anything you want to add?
Thank you very much for this opportunity!
