Amanda revealed unexpected expressive possibilities and the effects of transparency and opacity in an architectural medium; large-scale hand finished architectural glass.
Amanda Edgcombe was born and grew up in London, she studied at Nottingham Polytechnic for BA and the Slade for her MA in printmaking under Bartolomeu dos Santos, Stanley Jones and Oona Grimes and brings together her experience as an artist, researcher and designer. Her work has been shown in the UK and her house was featured in the Idler 2021.
Since moving to Suffolk in 2005 with her family Amanda embarked a series of projects for clients developing her ideas in architectural and landscape design. Amanda returned to the studio and painting in 2008 using new materials associated with these commissions. Combined with her practice experience from different fine art disciplines, etching techniques in both printmaking and architectural glass and a continuing interest in pattern, her studio work became more architectural.
EDUCATION
1995 - Central Saint Martins London - Fellowship
1995 - Central Saint Martins London - PT Postgraduate Glass
1993 - Slade UCL London - Postgraduate Printmaking
1990 - Nottingham Polytechnic - BA Fine Art
1989 - Kingston Polytechnic - Foundation
EXHIBITIONS
2023 - LOOP an exhibition of paintings and prints - The Cut. 8 New Cut. Halesworth Suffolk IB19 8BY Curated with Celia Lyttelton, supported by Monica Petzal The Printroom Studios where Amanda has made new print work and hosted with the generosity of The Cut Arts Centre Halesworth.
2021 - Contemporary and Country "Rock Paper Scissors" Houghton Hall Stables Norfolk
2020/21 - Tarquin Bilgen Fine Art Ebury Street Pimlico London
2020/21 - Fairhurst Gallery "In League With The Moon" Norwich
2020 - Contemporary and Country "Fine Balance" Houghton Hall Stables Norfolk
2020 - Flowers Gallery "Small is Beautiful" Cork Street London
2019 - Norfolk by Design "Artfair East" Norwich
2019 - "Solo show" Darsham Nurseries Suffolk
2018 - Flowers Gallery "Small is Beautiful" Cork Street London
2018-19 - Rowe & Williams Gallery/BBC Shepherds Bush London
2017 - Flowers Gallery "Small is Beautiful" Cork Street London
2017 - Rowe & Williams Gallery group show Suffolk
2017 - Mandells Gallery group show Norwich
2017 - Outpost group show Norwich
2016 - Printroom "Flipside auction" Suffolk
2016 - Old Forge "Solo show" Suffolk
2014/15 - Arthaus group show Suffolk
SELECTED OTHER SHOWS
Cochrane Theatre Gallery solo show London
Hartlepool Art Gallery and Bath Gallery "Into The Blue" with JPA glass studios
Soho 601 "Metaphors" Wardour Street London
Soho House "Everyday Less Ordinary" Wardour Street London
Derix Glass Studios "group show" Germany
Business Art Galleries/Curwen "group shows" London
"Amadora Print Festival" Portugal
Courtauld Gallery Somerset House "group show" London
Bonhams Gallery "New Contemporaries" London
COLLECTIONS/ COMMISSIONS
Monica Petzal - Artist, co-founder The Foundation for Women, Lecturer, Critic - Suffolk UK
BBC Shepherds Bush - London UK
Thorpe Hall - Norfolk UK
Roland Mouret - UK
Hanselman/Davies - NYC
Arenson President HQ - UK
Homerton Hospital - London UK
Royal London Hospital - London UK
Bill Emmott - London UK
For JPA Studios :
101 Hyde Park Hotel London UK
Haagendaaz Leicester Square London UK
Liberty Re Bank London UK
West Merchant Bank London UK
Gloucester Hotel London UK
Benazir Bhutto (Former Prime Minister of Pakistan)
TRAINING
Foundation Kingston Polytechnic, BA Fine Art Nottingham - MA Print-making Slade UCL - Central Saint Martins Swash Architectural Glass Fellowship.
AWARDS
Amanda received a Caroline Swash Fellowship in architectural Glass from Central Saint Martins College of Art, studying under Amal Ghosh, Caroline Swash and Adele Corin and has been invited to work at Studios including Derix Germany, John Patsalides Hampstead and Goddard and Gibbs Shoreditch, she has been a visiting artist at Ipswich Art School and Printroom Sweffling.