B I O G R A P H Y – Amanda Wood

Having worked for BBC Modern English in the early 1980s, Amanda Wood went on to train in design and illustration at Camberwell College of Arts. On graduation she worked as a freelance illustrator and designer for many publications including: BBC Publications, Macmillan Press, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, The Times Group plc, Routledge and Larousse. In 1988 she became Art Director for Time Out Publications.

Latterly she went on to become a Course Director in the London Institute of Arts (London University of the Arts), then Head of Department of Communication Media at Manchester Metropolitan University and then became Associate Dean (Academic) at the Faculty of Art, Media and Design at the University of the West of England, Bristol. During her time at Bristol Amanda was also appointed as Director of the Bristol School of Animation. Having developed and written many courses at both degree and postgraduate level, her later academic work involved pedagogic approaches to the teaching of drawing and applied arts. She has run national and international courses, conferences and workshops and in 2003 co-founded 'Drawing Quarters' an international 'practice-based' drawing symposium.

Her practice is concerned with the observational interpretation and documentation of landscape and naturalistic environments. This work explores not only the conceputal manipulation and interpretation of forms from 3D to 2D but has also led to a deeper consideration of the act of drawing. In particular certain projects have explored the relationship between walking as a physical act of recording information and the subsequent interpretation of such information in the studio. (see projects)

More recently the monochormatic interpretations of favoured sites in the United Kingdom; the Dorset coastline and the Derbyshire Peak District, have been replaced by a foray into the life of the highly coloured and insect-infested world of the Charente Maritime. Amanda has exhibited throughhout the United Kingdom and has work in many private collections.

Exhibitions include:
Destination Drawing – C.O.F.A. Gallery & Performance Space, International Drawing
Research Institute, University of New South Wells, Australia
'Markers' – Queen's Gallery, British Council, New Delhi, India
'Beyond Landscape' LAN2D – Crossley Gallery, Dean Clough, Halifax
'Beyond Landscape' LAN2D – Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
'Memories, Themes and Directions' – The Olivia Rogers Gallery, Charente Maritime
'Paths and Prints' – Tall House Gallery, London
'A Year and a Day' – Aytoun Gallery, Manchester

Contact us:-

amanda@thestudio17240.eu
peter@thestudio17240.eu