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Amanda Horwood C.V
Education
2017-2018 Level 5 Leadership Health and Social Care (children and adults)
2007/2008 Foundation Art Psychotherapy, Goldsmiths
2006/2007 PGCE PCET, UEL
1997/2000 Ba Hons Fine Art, Leeds Metropolitan University
1996/1997 Foundation Art and Design, WF college
Current Employment
2007 - present Specialist Mental Health Worker at Elms in WF
Voluntary Employment
July 2022 - present
Founder/Manager/Marketing at Elms Window Gallery
Workshops
June 2024 - Participated in Leytonstone Arts Trail by running collage workshops with Elms members.
This led to the Expressive Collage exhibition in the windows of Elms Window Gallery
June/July 2023 - Participated in Leytonstone Arts Trail by running a set of 3d art workshops with Elms Members and visiting artists Neesha Badhan and Harriott Knuckles. This led into coproduction and curation of the Monster Bunch exhibition at the Elms Window Gallery. This was also in collaboration with Artist Harriott Knuckles
February 2023 - Co facilitated a Valentines Portraits Workshop at Crate St James Street with Neesha Badhan
Gallery Representation
June 2022- Jan 2023 - The Hook Art Gallery, Brushfield Street, London, E1 6AA
April 2023- present - Tart Gallery London
Art Competitions
August 2023 - Long listed for Visual Artists Association (VAA) Open call Competition
Fundraisers
October 2022 - Auction for Combat Stress Secret Postcard
April 2022 - Auction for the Sabina Nessa Memorial Garden
October 2023- Auction for Combat Stress Secret Postcard
June 2024 - Auction for Project Play, Calais
Exhibitions
BIG - May/June 2024
Tower Gallery, Plaistow
Curated by Sue Nash and Eva Price
MURMURATION - May 2024
JM Gallery, Portobello Rd. Produced by
ArtfulDodgerLondon
SALT AND STARS - March 2024
JM Gallery, Portobello Rd. Produced by ArtfulDodgerLondon
PERSEPHONE RISING - March 2024
54 The Gallery, Mayfair. Produced by Week45collective
GOD OF SMALL THINGS - Feb. 2024
54 The Gallery, Mayfair. Produced by Week45Collective
CHORUS ARTS LAUNCH - Nov 2023
Riverside Studios
TART GALLERY LONDON - April 2023
TART FACTORY - Design District
open call winner
ARTIST STATEMENT
Artist Statement
Despite the delivery appearing representational, my work is influenced by abstract painters, and my work is process led, mainly unplanned.
I work relationally, alongside the painting to reach the final conclusion. That can take a long time or can happen very quickly. It depends on the struggle that occurs, how quickly the work resonates and is possible to find balance
My use of colour, texture and mark-making helps me to build layers, and create areas that could be seen as ‘zones’. I manipulate the paints to indicate something. An example being that a character belongs in another realm, or is both ‘in and out’ of the ‘Real, and the Painting world’.
‘There, and not there’, is a continuing theme, along with loss and trauma.
The painting process has developed into a visual language for my storytelling. Aesthetic decisions becoming metaphors. I use memories from my personal history and sometimes present experiences. The content merges with what I see and read, familiar faces often surprise me in the paintings. I have unexpected visits from film and t.v characters, themes from music and literature, which I have absorbed will magically appear.
Sometimes I lose characters, as their presence doesn’t benefit the composition anymore. That can be hard - but the painting will stop moving on, until I can bring myself to do it.
I’m not a spiritual person, but within my ‘Painting world’, there is an afterlife - a supernatural world beyond this one, parallel to the physical world. Spirits and angels interact with the living characters in my Painting world.
