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| Amanda Wallwork b.1957 |
Born: London
Studied: Brighton Polytechnic, Yeovil College
Lives in Dorset
Selected for Art Loan Collection, Bournemouth University 2008/9
Awarded Arts Council research grant to work with Dorset County Museum 2008
Selected for inclusion in 50 Wessex Artists, book, published November 2006
Selected for Art Loan Collection, Bournemouth University 2006/7
Artist in Residence and curator, Haunt exhibition, Timeline project, Sherborne House, Dorset 2003/4
Selected for Art Loan Collection, Bournemouth University 2003/4
Commissioned to design screen for Baptist Church, Yeovil 2002/3
Commissioned to create series of paintings for use on contemporary stationary range 1999
Illustrated books for children until 1998
Solo Exhibitions:
2009
'Lost Ways', Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
Mapping the Jurassic Coast, Dorset County Museum
2007
Art First, Cork Street, London
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Selected Mixed Exhibitions:
2008
'Art and Archaeology', Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole
2007
Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
'Earth, Land, Sea', Foss Fine Art, London
2006
'Marks in Time', Black Swan, Frome
2005
Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
2005
Bettles Gallery, Ringwood
Harlequin Gallery, Greenwich
'Landmarks', Walford Mill Craft Centre, Dorset
WarmWalls Gallery, Cheshire
2004
Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
2003
Old Warehouse Gallery, Dorchester
Atrium Gallery, Bournemouth
'Echoes of Colour', Blyth Gallery, Manchester
'Making Tracks', Rope Store Studio Gallery, Nailsworth
2002
'Groundwork', Meeting House, Ilminster, Somerset
Sherborne House, Dorset
2001
Harlequin Gallery, Greenwich, London
2000
'Patterns of the Past', Sherborne House, Dorset
1999
'Centre-Earth Marks and Birth Work', Bridgwater Arts, Somerset
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Wallwork is intrigued by the marks and traces left behind by people on places and objects, both deliberate and accidental, and the stories they tell. Her paintings are abstract interpretations that symbolise stories, places, journeys, rituals and time. Recent work has concentrated on interpreting the marks visible in the landscape when viewed from the air and the way these represent a 'map' of time.
As a child she lived in South London, opposite the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill. This instilled a fascination for museums with their glass cases full of ancient and curious objects and the stories hinted at by those trapped moments in time stored behind glass. Later the family moved to Dorset, whose ancient landscape, rich in archaeology provided an early source of inspiration. Henges, hillforts, round barrows and standing stones - huge sculptures in the landscape that left a deep impression.
Wallworks paintings are constructed from layers of plaster and oil paint built up and then scratched into, exposing the layers beneath. A process reminiscent of an archaeological dig or excavation. Her colours and textures convey a sense of true museum artefacts or antiquities, impregnated with a presence of the past.
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