Amanda Blake
Site-specific / Site Responsive projects and exhibition
paring painting down to its elemental components and expanding it out again, to explore dialogues that arise in response to a place, a site or the local. finding elements in common with landscape and histories. using earths, pigments, processes, and found materials, exploring their potential to speakclick images for further information / wider work developed
Somme
earth circle and photographic sequence, from a 12hr walk along the front line, 2013
for Exhibition and Conference WAR at the Yorkshire Craft Centre, Bradford, 2013
Sometime, at New Briton
Studio residency and site exhibition, Cresswell Quay, Pembrokeshire, 2012
Rhod in Roath, 2014
Art in the Gardens at 95, Ninian Park Road, as part of Made in Roath, Cardiff, 2014
The Building Project - Artist Response with gold leaf and marble dust
by FreshWest Design at Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen, 2019
Invited as one of Six Artists’ Responses for material dialogue and public engagement with this community project - a cityscape development - where the public was invited to construct a dwelling or shelter from a basic plaster cast, to add to the basic plywood landscape - a growing cityscape, to explore, experiment, play and debate on what it means to construct a settlement.
My response brought the ancient painting processes and materials I use to explore the materiality and space of the settlement as it evolves in the gallery, to include: positive/negative space and mapping - materials versus building and creating a home, a town, a city, and what gets left behind / decoration, gold leaf in relation to necessity and desire, and the context of our urban development and natural environment
click on image for link to Fresh West (external site)
by FreshWest Design at Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen, 2019
Invited as one of Six Artists’ Responses for material dialogue and public engagement with this community project - a cityscape development - where the public was invited to construct a dwelling or shelter from a basic plaster cast, to add to the basic plywood landscape - a growing cityscape, to explore, experiment, play and debate on what it means to construct a settlement.
My response brought the ancient painting processes and materials I use to explore the materiality and space of the settlement as it evolves in the gallery, to include: positive/negative space and mapping - materials versus building and creating a home, a town, a city, and what gets left behind / decoration, gold leaf in relation to necessity and desire, and the context of our urban development and natural environment
click on image for link to Fresh West (external site)
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