Venezuela Series 2007 Click to enlarge

Self Pride Click to enlarge

Pride & Joy Click to enlarge

Discarded, Porcelain Series Click to the enlarge

Los Nevados 2 Click to enlarge

Amanda Owen-Evans
Photographer (Elanora, QLD)

Amanda Owen-Evans nee Townsend is a fine artist / photographer who has recently emigrated to the Gold Coast from London, England. Born in Epping, London in 1976, Amanda grew up in London, Jakarta & Hong Kong where she found the cultural environments & diversities inspiring. So much so that culture, identity and ways of life became a strong dynamism to her work.

She has exhibited work in galleries, private venues and disused public places including Minimal Existence, Isokon Flats, Lawn Road, Belsize Park and Tunnelvision, Aldwych Underground Station, as a part of ‘London Open House’.

She has recently looked at the importance of artefacts and how material culture, its acquisition and appropriation, is integral to the construction and negotiation of social worlds and identities.

Her work involves many different mediums, including photography, sculpture, film and video and printmaking. She has made works by producing a series of porcelain casts of ephemera that are taken for granted in the western world and distorting and challenging assumptions through the use of photography, collage and illustration.

Artists Statement :I would call myself a ‘systematic’, I find myself methodologically grouping collections of objects in order to represent a set of principles. As a starting point I often find that a single word or phrase can develop into a number of exciting outcomes. I organise and categorise my ideas through experimentation and exploration. My most recent work explores a journey through Venezuela.

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EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS:

2004-2006 Institute of Education, London. Postgraduate Diploma in Art & Design in Education.
2002-2003 The London Institute, London. Graduate Certificate in Teaching Art Design & Communication.
1995-1998 Wimbledon School of Art, London. BA Honours Degree in Fine Art.
1994-1995 Winchester School of Art, Hampshire. Diploma in Foundation Studies

EXHIBITIONS:

November 2006 Research in Progress, Staff Show, University of the Arts London.
February 2005 Chinese New Year Celebrations, Group show, APT Gallery, Deptford, London.
July 2004 Group show at APT Gallery, Deptford, London.
June 2003 Open Studios at APT, Deptford, London.
June 2002 Open Studios at APT, Deptford, London.
April 2002 Foundation Staff Show, Wimbledon School of Art, London.
September 2001 Minimal Existence, Isokon Flats, Lawn Road, Belsize Park, London. ‘London Open House’,
Curated by Simon Day & Measure.
September 2001 All Back to Mine, Deptford X, Watson Street, Deptford, London.
August 2001 Solo Exhibition at The MIND shop, East Dulwich, London.
July 2001 Solo Exhibition at St.Christopher’s Hospice, East Dulwich, London.
July 2001 Cable Street Studios & Gallery – Open Studios 2001, London.
September 2000 Tunnelvision, Aldwych Underground Station, London.‘London Open House’.
July 1999 Cable Street Studios & Gallery – Open Studios 1999, London.
June 1999 South London Open’99 at the Sun & Doves Gallery, London.
June 1998 Final Year Degree Show at Wimbledon School of Art, London.
October 1997 Wimbledon School of Art Show at the Wimbledon Library, Curated by artist Richard
Wentworth.

REVIEWS:

Timeout Magazine, Exhibition Review for London Open House, ‘Minimal Existence’, September 19-26 2001