Eden Dodd
Eden Dodd, Conversations with my Father, 2021. Photo by Alan Dimmick Eden Dodd, Conversations with my Father, alongside work by Sara Pakdel-Cherry as part of the Crafted Selves exhibition at St Andrews Museum, 2023. Photo by Alan Dimmick Eden Dodd, Conversations with my Father, 2021. Photo by Alan Dimmick
Eden Dodd brings the direct personal experience as a trans woman into her work. In this piece she uses tragedy, darkness and loss as inspiration, through family conversations about identity.
Conversations with my Father, 2021
Handmade mirror, combi boiler, dried flowers
Eden Dodd: That identity is something that is a kind of filter or lens in which you experience the world and the world experiences you. I definitely think that there’s an aspect of the outside and the inside blurring and kind of coming together through that, which I find really interesting. I think identity is very critical and important, to not only us as artists but also to anybody in the world. And I think that a questioning, and an interrogation, and an educational and learning process in which one comes to understand their identity is very vital, I guess, to living a good and very human life.
Biography
Eden Dodd is a transfeminine artist living and working in Glasgow, Scotland. Her practice focuses on the concept of ‘fractured states’; the space between planes of existence, of dichotomies and of the physical and ethereal states. Dualities, reflections, and doubles are integral to the language used to describe these states. The concepts of her work focus on personal demons, the transfeminine experience, and personal mythologies and narratives acting as ‘lenses’ of self-analysis and actualisation. Her ongoing re-calibration of her identity is expressed through its connectivity to the androgynous nature of deities and mythological beings – wells from which she channels her power as a transfeminine person.
She has exhibited solo and as part of group exhibitions nationally and internationally, with a multidisciplinary practice focused predominantly within a form of sculpture that ‘blurs the lines between dimensions or states of being’ as well as art disciplines.
Dodd has recently finished studying her Master of Letters in Fine Art Practice (Sculpture) at Glasgow School of Art in 2021. Selected projects include Kunst I’m Nomad, Basel, Switzerland (2022); Severance, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh (2022); Death Throes at the University of Connecticut Art Galleries, Connecticut and SPRING/BREAK, New York, USA (2021); Plan B, SALT space Gallery, Glasgow (2021); Cwn Annwn, Cardiff Made, Cardiff (2020).