Artist Biography – Amanda Kennedy
Amanda Kennedy is an emerging visual artist who primarily
paints on canvas. Growing up with art being highly encouraged, it was through
school life drawing classes that she fell in love with the vitality of the
human body. After throwing herself into her art career only recently, she has
participated in some group exhibitions around Melbourne and more recently had a
solo show at Montsalvat in Eltham. Her split life between outer suburbia and
inner city Melbourne stimulates her to expand her artistic wings further; of
late this includes delving into watercolours, oils and soft sculpture.
I have a genuine visceral need to create, to paint, to play.
I can’t not do it. Life is always better when I don’t fight this need.
I paint human bodies.
We’ve all got one and they are all different. They vary from day to day even
for one person. This diversity is part of why I imagine I’ll never tire of the
subject matter.
I’m attracted to strong images .I often don’t know quite
where I’m going when I start a piece. All I know is that there is a strong
image that demands my attention. If it
happens that I disturb the viewer then I’m okay with that.
My pieces are representative of the vital
energies and passions that I see in each human body.
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