ABOUT

Amanda Wood is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist working among and in between materials and processes to build a visual language that gives shape and voice to the complex realities of divergent minds and bodies. She uses her ever expanding ephemeral and tactile practice to invite dialogue between traditional techniques and the everyday.

Perfect things, and mastery, are less interesting to Amanda than the artefacts of learning. By combining easily sourced and abundant materials, with processes that are deep and unmasterable she is prolific in her unlearning, and research practices. Grounded in craft traditions, scientific methods, and archival practices she focusses on the outcasts and artefacts created by learning and unlearning. The plurality and possibility found in merging the everyday, the unknowable and the temporal bridges the divergent and the typical. These layers of complexity create space to reclaim identity.

Amanda has been awarded Research and Creation grants from the Canada Council for the Arts annually since 2019. She has participated in solo and group shows in galleries in major Canadian cities and participated in residencies at the Ou Gallery, Emily Carr University and others. She has a BA in Communications from Simon Fraser University and a diploma in Textile Art from Capilano University. Amanda currently lives in Vancouver, BC.