ABOUT / AMDANAF

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a visual artist based between North Devon and South Wales. My work explores themes of pictorial space, technological mediation, and the act of observation. Photographs, surveillance camera images, touchscreen displays, and newspaper cuttings have each formed starting points for artworks concerned with how these familiar media shape our understanding of reality and influence our daily lives. Choosing to depict natural and human forms, my work invites viewers to reflect on the interplay between the natural world and technology; between direct and mediated experience, and between hand-making and mechanical production.

BIOGRAPHY

I grew up in the village of Crai in Wales and studied at Swansea College of Art, choosing to specialise in painting and drawing and later gaining MA and MPhil qualifications. My artwork was awarded inaugural Beep Painting Prize in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2014. My work was included in the exhibitions John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing, Two Temple Place, London (2019), John Ruskin: Art & Wonder, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield (2019) and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2020; 2023).