Cliff Edwards

Cliff Edwards is an artist and educator. After completing three years at his local art college in Buckinghamshire he then moved to London to study Fine Art at the Slade School of Art, University College. Here he worked initially as a painter, but toward the end of his degree and during his post-graduate years he produced large environmental ‘earth works’ which explored issues of global, environmental and philosophical concerns.
During this time he also worked with the architect and author Keith Critchlow, and met Buckminster Fuller, the American designer, author and futurist, both of whom were to affect a profound influence on his later work. During his post graduate time Cliff also engaged in educational projects in London schools, designing and building geodesic and polyhedral domes.

From his early college years he had a keen interest in Eastern and Western philosophy and metaphysics, particularly works that draw from the world's spiritual traditions, and to what the author Aldous Huxley was to call ‘The Perennial Philosophy.’ He began to present visual lectures on such themes as ‘Myths and Symbols of Evolution’, and ‘Introductions to the Sacred Art of Islam’ to universities and teacher training colleges. During his time at ...

University of London. Slade School of Art. DFA. HDFA. CertEd.

Selected EXHIBITIONS and GALLERIES

Young Contemporaries Show. ICA. London

Three Schools Show. Royal Acadamy. London

Institute of Contemporary Arts - an Architectural /
Multi-Media presentation for the Paris Biennial Exhibition.

H.C.F.E. Staff. Mixed exhibition. Harrow.

Stanhope Gallery, London. One man show.

Hamilton Gallery, Mayfair, London. Mixed exhibition.

Canaletto Gallery, Hatch End. One man show.

Seven Dials Gallery, London. Seven Artists. Organiser and exhibitor.

Chalk Farm Gallery, London. The Floral Collection. Mixed exhibition.

Westside Interiors. London.

Piccadilly Gallery. London W1. Summer Group Exhibition.

On The Wall Gallery. London. Mixed Exhibition.

AI-Sharaf Gallery. London . S.W.1 Mixed Exhibition.

Lauderdale House Gallery. London.

Zella Nine Gallery. Kings Road. London

Print Selection. Covent Garden and Smithfield. London

Chiltern Gallery, Amersham

Liberties. Regent St. London

Blackman and Harvey. Seven Dials. Covent Garden. London

Hamilton Gallery. Mayfair. London

Egee Art Consultancy. Chelsea. London

Chalk Farm Gallery. Camden, London

Charisma Gallery. Harrow

Rama Fine Art. Harrow on the Hill

Gallery 44. Kings Rd. London

Fovea Gal...