Amanda Blake
SITE-RESPONSIVE PROJECTS / EXHIBITIONS
paring painting down to its traditional or elemental components and expanding it out again, to explore dialogues that can arise in response to a place, a site and the local through painting’s materials. taking or finding elements in common with building, landscape, histories... using earths, pigments, processes, and found materials and exploring their potential to speak
please click images for further information and wider work developed and exhibited
‘Somme’ for Exhibition and Conference WAR at the Yorkshire Craft Centre, Bradford, 2013
‘Sometime’ at New Briton
Studio residency exhibition, Cresswell Quay, Pembrokeshire, 2012
Rhod in Roath, 2014
Art in the Gardens of Ninian Road, as part of Made in Roath, Cardiff, 2014
The Building Project, Collaboration by FreshWest Design and Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen, 2019
One of Six Artist’s Response’s to this community project, where the public was invited to construct their own shelter, from a basic plaster cast, and add it to a growing cityscape, to explore, experiment, play and debate on what it means to be part of building a settlement.
Bringing the processes, materials and tools I work with to explore the materiality and space of the settlement as it evolves in the gallery. positive/negative space and mapping, using building and decorative materials explored within the context of our urban and natural environment and in relation to necessity and desire, to aspects of building and creating a home, a town, a city, and of what gets left behind...