Anatomy of a painting
Image fragments are gathered from second-hand books and magazines - nature and culture, the city and the sea, science and kitsch - surface encounters that come briefly into focus. I stain my painting into the fibre, a tattoo on a canvas skin. The stain has no tactile presence, no impasto, I find that cycles of tearing, collapsing and reforming, become important in building the artefact, the image locked into creases and folds. Illusion is destabilized as form and edges are found.
AK Jan 2025
Selected Exhibitions
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2024
Blink Roomshare 6, Bedlow Room - Safehouse Peckham, London UK
Afterglow, Turps Hastings Alumni Group, Hastings Arts Forum, East Sussex UK
Coastal Currents Open Studios, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex UK
Turps Hastings Year End Show, Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards UK
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2023
Coastal Currents Open Studios, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK
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2019
Foreshore Open Studios, SFSA, Deptford Strand London SE4
Deptford X Fringe, Parade of the Friendly Monsters, London SE8
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2018
Second Floor Painting Open, No Format Gallery, Deptford SE8
Brookmill Artists Open Studio,Deptford X Fringe Events, SE8
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2017
Creekside Open 2017 APT Gallery, Deptford / Selected by Jordan Baseman
'Action Time Vision', Soft Wax Collective, Lewisham Arthouse SE13
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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
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2015
'Snakes & Ladders', ArtHub Gallery, Deptford X
'A Darker Splash', solo exhibition 'You Don't Bring Me Flowers' London SE13
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2013
Creekside Open 2013 APT Gallery Deptford, Selected by Paul Noble
'Eight Studios' Deptford X, curated exhibition at FairCharm
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2012
'The Odyssey', Project Artist with Teatro Vivo at Deptford Albany
'Site', solo exhibition at 'You Don't Bring Me Flowers' cafe
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2007,9,10,11
Battersea Art Fair London, Stark Gallery
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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-on-Sea, East Sussex. Combined career in education, with long-term independent practice (including gallery representation 2007-12). Former participant in Deptford’s contemporary art network and twice accepted into the Creekside Open. Drawing & Painting Co-ordinator at City Lit Adult Edcuation College, London; currently teaching short modules in drawing and expanded painting practices (2014-present).