BIOGRAPHY

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Jeremy Edwards was born in Liverpool, England and studied 3 Dimensional Design at Brighton University, Sussex. He now lives in Paris where he maintains his studio practice working as a designer. He is also a committed educator, and teaches at the ENSA-Dijon, National School of Fine Arts (which covers the disciplines of art, urban and environmental design) and at the Ecole Camondo, Paris (which specialises in product design and interior architecture).

Through his work, he tries to challenge assumptions, conceptions and meanings regarding the role objects play in everyday life. His influences come from the ordinary, basic but essential solutions people find when using simple means and everyday materials/objects that surround them, in order to make life easier. He believes that these solutions can broaden our view on what the creative process is and that this creative process, according to people’s own personal point of view, can be organised differently.

He has had solo exhibitions at various museums and galleries in Europe including the Galeria H2O in Barcelona, the Danish Museum Art & Design in Copenhagen, the Galerie VIA in Paris, the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam and the National Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm.

Concerning grants, awards and residencies, he has received a Congé de Recherche from the French Ministry of Culture, an Allocation de Recherche from the French Ministry of Culture, grants from the Danish King Frederik/Queen Ingrids Fund and Danish Design Fund, a Milan Design Report award and residencies from :​ 

• 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo

• CounterPulse, San Francisco

• DE-CONSTRUKT [projekts], New York​

• IASPIS (Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme

       for Visual and Applied Artists), Stockholm

He has also had two books published about his work.