Anatomy of a painting

My paintings make use of materials and ideas from the sewing-room: fabric and pigment, ruffles, fastenings and drapes. Imagery is transient, an encounter, emotion or distilled memory. I stain it into the fibre, a tattoo on a canvas skin. The stain has no texture, no impasto, instead this is manipulated into the textile. Cycles of pleating, collapsing and reforming, are important, the image locked into creases and folds.

AK June 2024

 

Selected Exhibitions

2024

Coastal Currents Open Studios, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex UK

Turps Hastings Year-End Show, Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards UK

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

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

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 Open Studios

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Amanda Knight Bio

Mixed-media artist living in St Leonard's  East Sussex.  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. Course Leader for Advanced Painting at City Lit Adult Edcuation College, London; plus short courses in drawing, research, abstract and contemporary painting  (2014-present). 

  

Falmouth School of Art, 1988-1990

Central Saint Martins, MA Applied Imagination for the Creative Industries 2000

City Lit Fine Art Course 2010-12

The Bigger Picture: Bob & Roberta Smith, Essential School of Painting 2018.

Turps Hastings Off-site Studio Programme, 2023-24

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