Jul, 2026
Drawing as Imprint: Shifting Perspectives
ARTIST'S TALK (online via Zoom):
Sunday 26 July 2026. 4.00pm to 5:30pm
Zoom Link: bit.ly/a-waite
STATEMENT
Amanda's art practice explores the body's fragility and temporal existence through portraiture. Her layered drawings and porcelain sculptures convey passages of time and the cycles of trauma and healing. The sea recurs in her work, where the language of transparency merges materiality with story.
Connection and invitation are catalysts in her work, allowing space for new possibilities in drawing. Drawing expands into an imprint from post-operative lines created by the surgeon. Amanda's porcelain sculptures from body casts of courageous women undergoing breast cancer treatment are a shift in expressing a person's essence and journey. The generous interaction of casting a sitter's body speaks of trust and empowerment in the face of trial. The work is an important expression of the body's ability to overcome the impact of disease in a place of open sea, suspension, paused time and reflection. This body of water sensitively calls for a conscious reawakening to environmental apathy.
BIO
Amanda Waite is a Scottish figurative artist who completed her MFA in Drawing with distinction at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2024. She began her career studying illustration at De Montfort University in 1989, subsequently working in advertising as an in-house illustrator. In 2020, she returned to fine art, establishing herself as an emerging artist working in drawing, cyanotype printmaking, oils, sculpture, and sewing. The transition to contemporary practice has expanded her drawing vocabulary, and she channels the vulnerability and resilience gained from these experiences—as well as those recounted by her sitters - into her drawings.
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