Painting Encounters with the land

‘This work is concerned with the challenge of registering experiences in a holistic manner that integrates multiple levels of experience or modes of representation. Gesture, process, and physically being in environments have become important ways of enabling these encounters to be evident in the paintings, and ‘new materialist theory’ has helped to make sense of the methodology during this inquiry. In view of the trajectory of gesture and process, and in the context of new materialist theory such as Bennett’s and Donna Haraway’s ideas of ‘assemblages’ and ‘borderlands’, Amanda is looking at how gesture can recapture a sense of ‘directness’, and be revitalised from an anthropocentric expression to be used to reveal an encounters between her as artist, environments, and materials.’

Exhibition

Painting Encounters with the Land

11-28 February 2022, Ramp Gallery, Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand

Article: “Painting Encounters With Environments”, published in the Journal of Visual Art Practice (2021)

Exhibition Catalogue: Painting Encounters With The Land