Grave Goods, a Portrait, a Biography or Reliquary of a Woman’s Life
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
8-3-2025 6:40 PM
Description
Nettie Edwards, Artist, Educator, Independent Researcher, Cheltenham, England.
Grave Goods, a Portrait, a Biography or Reliquary of a Woman’s Life
“‘These are her things,’ he was saying. ‘These are her things! She touched these things, she chose and bought them one by one, she arranged them lovingly and she thought they were beautiful. Oh my mother, my poor foolish little mother!’ The tears were streaming down his face.” — The Book of Ebenezer le Page by G.B. Edwards.
I would like to propose a brief description, with accompanying slides, of the work I presented in the exhibition NATURAL MAGIC at the Bodleian Library Oxford in 2023. GRAVE GOODS is an anthotype and chlorophyll print series made during lockdown in 2020. Working with items salvaged from my deceased aunt’s belongings, not only as photographic subjects but as materials and equipment with which to make plant-based, camera-less photographic prints. Grave Goods may be viewed as a portrait, a biography, or reliquary of a woman’s life. It proposes an important role for photographic impermanence, particularly as a component of grief work.
Nettie Edwards is an artist, educator and independent researcher. Named as a contemporary experimental photography reference in the 2019 Pearson Edexel A-level Art & Design paper, she is recognised as an early innovator in the smartphone photography and arts movement (from 2009 onwards) and for her commitment, since 2014, to working with sustainable photographic processes, most notably Anthotype & Chlorophyl printing. She leads workshops and residences, and gives presentations about both her digital and analogue work, in the UK & internationally. In 2020, her project Graves Goods won the100 Heroines EXPERIMENTAL open call (juror Ellen Carey). Exhibitions include: Natural Magic: Experiments in Photography Bodleian Library, Oxford 2022; Struck By Light Experimental Photo Festival, Barcelona 2020; Fabric of Photography Photo Oxford 2021; Contemporary Anthotypes Rhode Island Centre for Photography, 2022. In 2013, she became the first smartphone photographer to have work shown at Lacock Abbey, in the exhibition Black & White Photography In The 21st Century.
Relational Format
Conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Edwards, Nettie, "Grave Goods, a Portrait, a Biography or Reliquary of a Woman’s Life" (2025). Women of Photography: A 24-Hour Conference-a-thon Celebrating International Women’s Day 2025. 53.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphotography/2025/schedule/53
Grave Goods, a Portrait, a Biography or Reliquary of a Woman’s Life
Nettie Edwards, Artist, Educator, Independent Researcher, Cheltenham, England.
Grave Goods, a Portrait, a Biography or Reliquary of a Woman’s Life
“‘These are her things,’ he was saying. ‘These are her things! She touched these things, she chose and bought them one by one, she arranged them lovingly and she thought they were beautiful. Oh my mother, my poor foolish little mother!’ The tears were streaming down his face.” — The Book of Ebenezer le Page by G.B. Edwards.
I would like to propose a brief description, with accompanying slides, of the work I presented in the exhibition NATURAL MAGIC at the Bodleian Library Oxford in 2023. GRAVE GOODS is an anthotype and chlorophyll print series made during lockdown in 2020. Working with items salvaged from my deceased aunt’s belongings, not only as photographic subjects but as materials and equipment with which to make plant-based, camera-less photographic prints. Grave Goods may be viewed as a portrait, a biography, or reliquary of a woman’s life. It proposes an important role for photographic impermanence, particularly as a component of grief work.
Nettie Edwards is an artist, educator and independent researcher. Named as a contemporary experimental photography reference in the 2019 Pearson Edexel A-level Art & Design paper, she is recognised as an early innovator in the smartphone photography and arts movement (from 2009 onwards) and for her commitment, since 2014, to working with sustainable photographic processes, most notably Anthotype & Chlorophyl printing. She leads workshops and residences, and gives presentations about both her digital and analogue work, in the UK & internationally. In 2020, her project Graves Goods won the100 Heroines EXPERIMENTAL open call (juror Ellen Carey). Exhibitions include: Natural Magic: Experiments in Photography Bodleian Library, Oxford 2022; Struck By Light Experimental Photo Festival, Barcelona 2020; Fabric of Photography Photo Oxford 2021; Contemporary Anthotypes Rhode Island Centre for Photography, 2022. In 2013, she became the first smartphone photographer to have work shown at Lacock Abbey, in the exhibition Black & White Photography In The 21st Century.
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