Emerging Artists Unleashed 

Artist Statement

Born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1996, Eden Redman has lived in both rural Saskatchewan and urban Alberta for nearly a decade each. With the loss of two immediate family members marking his beginnings, his fascination with the experiences of his friends and remaining family continues to grow and inform his practice. Their subsequent challenges with mental health would inspire a lifetime of seeking to further understand the human mind. A practicing attentional neuroscience researcher, Eden describes his artistic process as the following, “My work represents an investigation into self along a transection of the forefront of scientific knowledge and that of art-based philosophical inquiry”.

With his artistic works having been described as “vaguely diagrammatic”, Eden gravitates towards painting in semi-abstract and abstract styles, working in ink, watercolour, acrylic, and oil. Recurring themes of tension, ranging from entropy versus complexity to balance versus imbalance, evokes a methodical, almost formulaic presentation to each work. In exploring the characteristics of mental illness, Eden comes into contact with the ideas of autonomy, free will, and the malleability of experience and perception.