Biography
Amanda began her career as an artist by studying at Elam School of Fine Arts, which fast tracked a deep curiosity about creating and a love of painting. After art school she went on to set up a studio practice and has been exhibiting regularly in solo shows, group show, and art awards. Her practice-led Masters in Arts (Painting), further study in museums and galleries, and a summer school at the Slade in London have developed a foundation of formal art training.
Her work appears in commercial and public galleries, public art gallery collections, exhibition publications, and peer-reviewed publications. Amanda has enjoyed the Fred Staub Artist Residency in Otago, and several private residencies including Pukekura in Ngāmotu New Plymouth, and the Hokianga [Aotearoa New Zealand], and Edgefield in Norfolk [United Kingdom] where she has made extensive bodies of work and connected with the communities through the time there. Others have written about her work in peer-reviewed publications, essays and editorials in Art New Zealand, Scopes Journal, and EyeContact.
Alongside her work she sometimes teaches fine art at the Waikato Institute of Technology where she is a Research Associate. Since 2021 she has contributed to academic research in practice-led art through the Journal of Visual Art Practice as an Associate Editor, and as a guest speaker at the Edinburgh College of Art, St Andrews University, and the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Scotland and at the University of Otago. Sharing about the work and generating discussion about the creative process is important to her, and she has enjoyed being a panel speaker at the Art Association of New Zealand and Australia’s conferences for several years, and at research symposiums in Aotearoa and overseas.
