RICHARD EDWARDS | THE CARDBOARD SHIPYARD

DISASTERS  
My work has always revolved around disasters of one kind or another including:
-Deteriorated photos from American crime magazines.
-Aeroplanes flying into buildings [1984 Paintings at the James Ulrich Gallery in 1984 ].
-The fatal Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole of Captain R. F. Scott.
-The sinking of the Titanic [work started two years before the James Cameron movie debut].
-The examination of many different kinds of shipwrecks, fires, disappearances and  the use of photographed tableaux of model ships and varied sources of photographed water which I am still currently pursuing. Also the construction of cardboard ships, painted and set in tableaux, on shelves with sand, photographs and various objects. However in the latest exhibitions of these constructions I have eschewed the associated detritus and presented them unadorned and directly on the wooden shelves. I plan to make large digital photographs of the more complex tableaux.

BIOGRAPHY
Born in a small mining village in  South Wales- Cardiff College of Art.
Left as soon as possible -  Hornsey  College of Art in London , England.
Left as soon as possible to live in Canada. [1972].
Taught at the  Alberta College of Art to the present.
Dual citizenship - Canadian/ British.

COLLECTIONS
The Texaco Corporation.
The Lennard Corporation.
The Mining Museum of South Wales.
The Petro Canada Corporation.
The Chagall Centre , Ostrava, Czech Republic.
The University of Middlesex, U.K..
The Alberta Art Foundation.
Opus Frames Vancouver.
University of Calgary
University of Middlesex, U.K.
Alberta Art Foundation.
The Mining Museum of South Wales.
The Petro Canada Corporation.
The Glenbow Museum.