Edward Chell is a London-based artist working across media and a Reader in Fine Art at UCA, Canterbury, Kent. His work explores ideas around taste, consumption and display and their relationship to environment with a particular interest in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the interplay between discovery, natural sciences and the decorative arts. Chell’s previous exhibitions, such as Bloom at the Horniman Museum and Gardens (2015) and Soft Estate at Bluecoat, Liverpool (2013) and Spacex, Exeter (2014) interrogated related themes of ecology, edgelands, material and environmental exploitation and display and their C18th roots which this exhibition builds on. Recent group shows include Synthetic Landscapes (Meadow Arts 2018), The Brownfield Research Group (AirSpace Gallery, Stoke 2018) and The Precious Clay (Meadow Arts 2019). He recently curated the exhibition Phytopia at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (2019) accompanied by a book of the same title.