Digital Riot: Eden Grant Dodd in conversation with Abigail Frazer – An Instagram Live Interview on our dedicated community outreach project @9to90creativecommunity instagram page with Welsh Visual Artist Eden Grant Dodd. It’s the 2nd of 3 artist interviews leading up to the release of our new 9to90 Creative Community zines, focusing on the importance of riot and protest throughout Welsh history.

Join us this Sunday 17th at 14:00 BTS and follow the talk here and the PDF of images here–

As a non-binary Trans person, I have found a connection with fractured states within my artwork; the space between planes of existence, of dichotomies and of the physical and ethereal states. Dualities, reflections and doubles are integral to the language of my practice – the other always exists within the self. Through the lens of queerness; I can exist in both this side of the mirror and the other, simultaneously.

Within my practice, twin dialogues between ‘the real and seen’ & ‘the unreal and unseen’ are of great importance to the core foundations of my ongoing body of work, Recent exploration into the ‘cultural themes of masculinity’ through a visual lexicon inspired by historical and contemporary culture has manifested in my predominant material; that of ‘the mirror’. Tragedy, darkness and loss are key pools of inspiration that I regularly draw from within my own practice, as they are a well that never runs dry for visual and conceptual material in this vein.

The Artist has exhibited both Solo, and as part of a group, both Nationally and Internationally, with work held in private collections around the Globe.