Edie Evans is an artist whose practice explores ecology, materiality, and embodied making through sculpture, installation, photography, and socially engaged practice. Working with clay and raw earth, her research investigates the relationship between landscape, body, memory, and process, using tactile and site-responsive methods to examine how materials carry geological, cultural, and emotional knowledge. She was the Freelands Studio Fellow at Swansea College of Art (2024–2025), holds an MA with Distinction from Bath Spa School of Art (2023), and a BA (Hons) from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (2018).

In 2025, Evans was recognised as Promising New Talent by the British Ceramic Biennial and is currently the Burton at Bideford Ceramics Artist in Residence (2025–2026). Recent residencies and projects include Crypt Gallery, London (2025), Southcombe Barn (2026), and GroundWork Gallery (2026).

Her practice is rooted in slow, tactile processes, working with raw clay, excavated earth, found matter, and foraged materials often gathered directly from the landscapes she inhabits. Through acts of walking, collecting, compressing, and assembling, she allows gravity, moisture, erosion, and time to shape each work.

Using cob, unfired earth, reclaimed clay, and site-specific materials, she explores regenerative and materially responsive approaches to making that challenge industrial systems of production and fixed ideas of permanence.

As a neurodivergent artist, Evans’ practice is deeply informed by embodied experience and sensory awareness. Repetition, touch, and intuitive movement operate as methods of thinking through making, where knowledge develops through direct material engagement rather than predetermined outcomes. Her works often function as records of environmental interaction and lived experience, inviting slower and more attentive ways of relating to the natural world.

Teaching, mentoring, and collaborative learning are central to her practice. She facilitates workshops and material-led learning environments across educational and community settings, including Hauser & Wirth Somerset. Evans is currently a Creative Mentor for Bath Spa University’s graduate development programme, EMERGE, and also provides one-to-one mentoring for emerging artists and students. Her teaching prioritises accessibility, experimentation, and non-hierarchical forms of knowledge exchange, informed by her lived experience as a disabled and neurodivergent artist.

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