Eden McDowell is an object and installation based sculptor currently living in London, GB. She recently received her MFA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths University of London in 2023, after receiving her BFA in sculpture from the Maine College of Art in 2017. She is a 2023 recipient of the Gilbert Bayes Award for Early Career Sculptors and a 2018 awardee of the St. Botolph Club Foundation's Emerging Artist Grant for sculpture. She has recently shown her work in Dumping Ground at Hypha HQ, London, GB, 2024, MKTPLC at Plop Residency, London, GB, 2024, Total Straw, Parkhouse St., London, GB, 2023, and has had a solo exhibition, silt, at New System Exhibitions, Portland, ME, USA, 2021. As a musician and vocalist, Eden has also accompanied various sound performances including Lattice Structure of Space-time, Indigo+Madder, London, GB, 2024 and Mixed Feelings, Alice Black Gallery, London, GB, 2024.

Her approach to art making involves walking and taking pictures of sculptural drawings left by passerby as well as re-salvaging or simulating material from local discard. Her sculptures explore the intersection between industry and ecology—often forming narratives from landscapes that illustrate the Anthropocene. Her sculptural installations navigate an Expanded Field of environment, myth, pseudoscience, and quotidian detail. Having moved to London from a small island in Maine, USA, Eden’s approach to making art involves sensitively observing her urban surroundings via note-taking, harvesting field recordings, and stitching together reappearing themes. By retelling or re-presenting immersive, built environments through objects and imagery and sound, Eden’s sculptures celebrate heterological findings within the mundane.