Joya: guest residency curator:

At Joya: AiR, the guest curator plays a pivotal role in shaping and enhancing the residency’s creative and intellectual programme. Reporting to the co‑founders and working closely with participants, the guest curator develops thematic frameworks and curatorial concepts that engage both resident artists and the broader ecological context of the site. Their responsibilities include selecting and introducing works or programmes that resonate with Joya’s mission at the intersection of contemporary practice and environmental inquiry, facilitating dialogues among residents, organising presentations or exhibitions, and contributing specialist expertise that enriches the residency’s cultural exchange. By bringing distinctive perspectives and networks to Joya: AiR, the guest curator helps extend the impact of the residency beyond the immediate landscape into international artistic discourse. This role is typically collaborative and designed to expand the creative possibilities of the programme while upholding Joya: AiR’s commitments to sustainability, interdisciplinary inquiry, and site‑responsive practice.

Having undertaken residencies herself and built close relationships with the organisers, she is able to provide students with a safe, supportive, and enriching experience that fosters artistic growth, professional development, and cultural exchange.

Annie Edwards’ essential area of focus is the human body. Her multidisciplinary practice distorts our familiar sense of reality by incorporating robotic, figurative sculptures with abstracted skeletal forms. Annie’s installation and performances aim to understand the body from biological, psychoanalytical and social perspectives. Her research choreographs the tension between body and machine, embedding visceral knowledge into mechanical gesture. Annie references wider systems of control present in domestic, medical and industrial environments, drawing on her personal experience of trauma, neurodiversity, atopic illness, and her background in farming.

www.annieedwards.com @a_knee___