My work tangles with different components of depth illusion: stain, transparency, overlap, broken line, perspectival space, the rectangle or window view. Through wilfully breaking the illusion, so its trickery is reavealed. For me, painting is a fickle space, held in place by edges, overlaps, sutures and collapsible planes. Irreconcilably akin both to the sliding panels of a theatre set, and the flatness of a template or pattern-piece.
My works are mixed-media and often temporary, wall-hangings or small artefacts crafted from biodegradable materials like card, paper, fabric, graphite, inks and pigment. The cycle of folding, collapsing or breaking-down, long-important to my work. Processes of storing and forgetting, selectively returning, the incision of time locked into creases and folds.
AK 2023
Selected Exhibitions and Events
2023
Coastal Currents Open Studios, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, UK
2019
Foreshore Open Studios, SFSA, Deptford Strand SE4
Deptford X Fringe, Parade of the Friendly Monsters, SE8
2018
Second Floor Painting Open, No Format Gallery, Deptford SE8
Frills and Spills, Little Nan’s Bar, Deptford X Fringe Installation, SE8
Brookmill Artists Open Studio,Deptford X Fringe Events, SE8
2017
Creekside Open 2017 Selected by Jordan Baseman
'Action Time Vision', Soft Wax Collective, Lewisham Arthouse SE13
2016
'Deptford Works' Deptford X Fringe, Crossfield Studios SE8
'Nighthawks', FREUD Shaftesbury Ave City Lit Group Exhibition
'Art Without Borders', Syria Relief, Leyden Gallery, Shoreditch, London
'The Elements' Group Exhibition, Crossfield Studios, Deptford SE8
2015
'Snakes & Ladders', ArtHub Gallery, Deptford X
'A Darker Splash', solo exhibition 'You Don't Bring Me Flowers' London SE13
'The call of the running tide' City Lit Staff Exhibition
2013
Creekside Open 2013 Selected by Paul Noble
'Eight Studios' Deptford X, curated exhibition at FairCharm
2012
'The Odyssey', Project Artist with Teatro Vivo at Deptford Albany
'Site', solo exhibition at 'You Don't Bring Me Flowers' cafe
2007,9,10,11
Battersea Art Fair London, Stark Gallery
2007-9
Urban Art, Brixton, London
Lee Green Artists, Open Studios
Edinburgh Art Fair, Art Ireland, Bristol Art Fair, Cambridge Art Fair - Stark Gallery
Amanda Knight Bio
Mixed-media artist now living in St Leonard's East Sussex. Early training as botanical-graphic artist (Falmouth School of Art) led to 5 years of practice in industry, before re-training as an outreach educator and fine-artist based in Lewisham/Deptford. Combined career in adult learning with long-term independent practice including gallery representation (2007-12) . Active participant in Deptford’s contemporary art network and twice accepted into the Creekside Open. Co-ordinator for the City Lit Fine Art Course, and Course Leader for Advanced Painting. Plus short courses in drawing research, abstract and contemporary painting at City Lit, London (2014-present).
Falmouth School of Art, Illustration Diploma 1988-1990, Central Saint Martins, MA Applied Imagination for the Creative Industries 2000, City Lit Fine Art Course 2010-12, The Bigger Picture Post-Grad course with Bob & Roberta Smith, Essential School of Painting 2018.