Amanda Blake
EXHIBITIONS
solo2025 Art Out West Open Studios, Studio Exhibition, Stackpole, Pembrokeshire horizon, line and colour to dive into
2016 Stackpole Walled Gardens, as part of Art Out West, Stackpole, Pembrokeshire in material
2014 Sunflower and I, Cardiff Surface / Depth, new frescoes
2012 New Briton, Cresswell Quay, Pembrokeshire Sometime, at New Briton - site-specific fresco and sound installation
group / selected
2021 Pigments Revealed International, Symposium and Biennale, Online Exhibition
2020 Withybush Hospital, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire Curator and Contributor - Art for Staff Restrooms, in light of Covid pandemic
2019 Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen ‘Artist Response’ - day residency - ‘in material’, dialogue with The Building Project by Freshwest Design
2019 Y Ffurnes, Llanelli Through the Lens
2018 Craft in the Bay, Cardiff Rooted In Practice, curated by Laura Thomas
2018 Oriel Henry Thomas, Carmarthen and The Edge Gallery, Cardigan 40 Years of Here
2018 Stackpole Walled Gardens, Pembrokeshire Kintsugi, the last of the gold leaf... as part of Art in the Garden, Art Out West
2016 Oriel Henry Thomas, Carmarthen ‘Stone’ as part of The Welsh Drawing Book
2015 Stackpole Walled Gardens, Pembrokeshire Drawing Pigment as part of Art in the Garden, Art Out West
2015/16 Oriel Q, Narberth, Pembrokeshire Selected Summer Open
2015 Torch Theatre, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire Art Out West group show
2014 Rhod in Roath as part of Made in Roath, Cardiff ‘Fugitive’, at no. 95 Ninian Park Road
2013 Yorkshire Craft Centre, University of Bradford & Bradford College, Bradford ‘Somme’, part of WAR, Conference and Exhibition
2013 King Street Gallery, Carmarthen Matter Lumina group show
2012 Milkwood Gallery, Cardiff Matter Lumina group show
2012 The Old Library, Cardiff ‘Drawing Pigment’ as part of Becoming, group show
2011 Yorkshire Craft Centre, Bradford, West Yorkshire Workers Playtime
2010 Bates Mill, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire ‘Displaced’, site-specific fresco as part of Huddersfield Arts Weekend
2009 Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff Creative Acts, MA Show
2007 Centrespace, Bristol Carved Line Painted, as part of Very Important Products, curated by Alice Forward
2006 Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen Winter Selected Open - a new fresco 1999 Tenby Arts Festival, Slate House Studio Exhibition Abstractions, new painting oil/acrylic
1995 Atelier Gallery, Exeter Ten - ‘Mountain Ash, living light’ - photographic sequence
TALKS / LECTURES
2024 International Women’s Day Creative Network Event, Hermon, Pembrokeshire, funded by Arts Council Wales Sharing Together Fund, curated by Lisa Evans and Pip Lewis Roots Shoots and Offshoots, Artist Talk/Q&A panel2019 Craft in the Bay, Cardiff Drawing with Nature, Artist’s Talk
2011 Random Lecture Series, Bradford College, Bradford Nearness, Farness and Embodied Viewing
2009 Cardiff School of Art & Design Drawing Pigment, Artist’s Talk
2003 PTS International Animation Conference, Taipei, Taiwan Story, Keynote Speaker/Q&A panel, Animated Tales of the World
AWARDS
2020 Whilst Things Are Still Reversible - rock rubbings from Arctic Circle, Sweden, Longlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize2013 Research and Development funding from the Yorkshire Craft Centre, University of Bradford & Bradford College for Somme, as part of WAR conference and exhibition - Included field research and a 12hr circular walk in Albert, the War Memorials and the frontline at La Boiselle, France, for development of earth circle and photographic sequences
2003 S4C Short Shorts Animated Film Commission - Ar Lan y Mor / A Day at the Seaside
a 1 minute pinhole animation of an entire day at the beach, with its incoming and outgoing tides and the litter left in its wake
- Awarded 1st Prize in Animation at Urbania Short Film Festival, Italy 2005
- Screened at SAND Animation Festival, Swansea, 2005
- Screened at Environmental Film Festival Wales, Cardiff, 2004
TEACHING
Lecturer
2016-ongoing Carmarthen School of Art, Coleg Sir Gar, Carmarthen Lecturer in Painting, BA Hons Fine Art Painting, Drawing & Printmaking2010-2011 Bradford School of Arts & Media, Bradford College Lecturer in Painting, Drawing and Lens Based Media, BA Hons Fine Art / Art & Design
2011 University of Salford Part-time Lecturer in Fine Art Practice, BA Hons Visual Art
1998 Exeter College Lecturer on Foundation Photography / part-time BA Fine Art, 1998
Visiting Lecturer
Cardiff School of Art & Design, UWIC 2009University of Plymouth, 2005 - Lead Fresco Tutor for BA Hons Fine Art Painting, 2nd year students’ Professional Practice Project with lecturer Steve Berry for a site-specific fresco at Ide Organic Farm, in association with Organic Arts Devon. Included facilitating research and practical development in fresco for completion of 20 x 8ft public art fresco
Workshops
2019-23 Craft in the Bay, Cardiff‘Painting with Nature’ / ‘Drawing with Nature’ - egg tempera and traditional ecological materials for contemporary thinking, for artists/makers, funded by Arts Council Wales
‘Ancient Palette, Precious Earth’ - egg tempera and traditional gesso panels, one and two day workshops
‘Drawing with Nature’ - an introduction to making materials and experimental drawing with traditional and found ecological materials
2013-14 West Wales School of the Arts, Carmarthen
Buon Fresco week workshops developing fresco on panel, sinopia and final painting for BA Hons Fine Art 2nd and 3rd year students
Egg tempera one day workshops for BA Hons Fine Art Painting students
2012-13 Stroke Association, Pembrokeshire
‘Painting Abstraction’ - Colour on Silk, painting workshops, Milford Haven, Pembroke Dock and Haverfordwest, culminating in work towards group exhibition at The Gate, Cardiff, 2013
2009 Cardiff School of Art & Design, UWIC
Buon Fresco - workshop week for BA Hons Fine Art Painting, 2nd years, with a focus on materiality and space in Medieval, Renaissance and Contemporary Frescoes
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2023 Sculpture and Form with Marcus Cornish, The Royal Drawing School, online course2021 Interior and Exterior Spaces, The Royal Drawing School, online course
2020 Roman Fresco with Carey Mortimer, Bosa Arts School, Sardegna, Italy
2012/14 Mindfulness in the Workplace & Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, University Trinity St. Davids, Wales / Heather Fish2005 Lime Plastering and Restoration, Ty Mawr Lime, Brecon
2004 Fresco & Ancient Painting for Contemporary Artists, Carey Mortimer, Dedalo Arts Centre, Italy
EDUCATION
2009 MA Fine Art (Distinction), University of Wales, Institute Cardiff1998 PGCE/FE, University of Cardiff
1995 BA Combined Honours Fine Art (1st) & Italian (2.1), University of Exeter
1992/3 One year exchange, Laurea Pittura, Accademia dei Belle Arti, Florence, Italy
1990/91 Foundation Art & Design, CCTA, Carmarthen
Carved Line, Painted Line, 2009
Raw Umber and Cobalt Blue, polished Fresco on panel
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
2001-2004 Series Co-ordinator, Animated Tales of the World, Right Angle, Tenby, Wales2004 Series Producer, foreign language versioning of Animated Tales of the World for Channel 4Visual Research in Taiwan with PTS Television for Right Angle and S4C 2003, for The Mouse Bride, the Taiwanese tale by Christmas Films Moscow as part of Animated Tales of the World, Series III
1998-2001 Production Co-ordinator, Animated Tales of the World Series I&II, The Canterbury Tales Right Angle, Tenby, Wales
1995-2003 Artist working in time-based media - photography, film and pinhole
Freelance Translator and Tutor Italian, French, Spanish
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