Amanda Faulkner - Big Red Journey (Detail) (1998) © Amanda Faulkner, Flowers East.

biography

I cannot think of the work of Amanda Faulkner without thinking of South American Shamanism. Her figures define the mystical etherealness of those elusive beings - a kind of voyage inside and outside of the mind.
Paul Page

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18.01.13: biography

Amanda Faulkner's work concerns the pressures and stress emanating from the freedom of choice women have achieved over the last one hundred years or so. With emancipation, opportunity and sexual freedom invariably brings tension, a world in constant flux, and in this shift of the human condition the artist has explored the doubts and musings within a framework of the surreal nightmare. In doing so she has created a world that is her own, a Faulkner landscape every bit original, disquietening and beautiful as Frida Kahlo or Leonora Carrington.

"There are proper openings, sites of entry, specific places where I take things, or push things out. These sites are extra-sensitive, lined with a membrane that marks the edge of my skin, the beginning of the dark, wet inside. The membrane runs along the border, it senses the pressure of coming in, going out. That movement betwen the two worlds (inside and outside) is erotic, it is where sex is. The boundary of my body, the surface of my skin, is a location where sex and language meet" - Amanda Faulkner

Amanda Faulkner draws breasts over and over, as if the breast that supersensitive bulbous mass which is generally hidden by clothing (only the ideal versions are allowed out, only the perfect ones go on display, as if to erase or eradicate the idiosyncrasy and quirk of all the rest), as if the breast, in its fluidity, its swelling, its droop, its point, its tension (the nipple hardens, the breat surges), its marshmallow softness, as if the breast stands in for the whole thing, that bodily self I am tryng to descibe. Amanda Faulkner's breasts are everywhere, proliferating.

Source: Leslie Dick, 1998 - Amanda Faulkner: Small Mysteries Exhibition Catalogue - Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal, Cumbria. Ltd to 1,000 copies worldwide

18.01.13: c.v.

AMANDA FAULKNER
1953: Born, Dorset
1978/79: Bournemouth College of Art
1979/82: Ravensbourne College of Art
1982/83: Chelsea School of Art

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1983: Woodlands Art Gallery, Blackheath, London
1985: Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1986: Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1987: Big Women, Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone
1988: Seven Deadly Sins and Recent Drawings and Prints, Flowers East, London
1989: Breaking Water, Drumcroon Arts and Education Centre, Wigan
1990: Flowers East, London
1992: New Work, Flowers East, London
1992: Amanda Faulkner: Recent Drawings, Manchester City Art Galleries
1995: Mares' Tails, Flowers East at London Fields, London
1996: Mares’ Tails, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
1998: Small Mysteries, Abbot Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Kendal, Cumbria
1999:Small Mysteries, Flowers East at London Fields, London
2002: Flowers East, London
2008: Flowers Central, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1983: The Print Show, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1984: Various Madness, Birkstead Gallery, London

Faulkner, Joseph, Kowalsky, Angela Flowers Gallery, London and Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton

What's New in the Arts Council Collection - touring

New Images in Printmaking, Blond Fine Art, London

9th International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, Yugoslavia

International Senefelder, Siftung, Offenbach, W.Germany

1985: Passion and Power, La Galeria 2nd Class, New York

Double Elephant, Concourse Gallery, Barbican Arts Centre, London

Black and White, Angela Flowers Gallery, London

Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts, 5th National Exhibition and touring

International Printmaking Exhibition, Messina,

The Print Show - Woodcuts and Linocuts, Angela Flowers Gallery, London

Artists Against Apartheid, Royal Festival Hall, London

Human Interest, Cornerhouse, Manchester

Figure I, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth

Royal Overseas League Annual Exhibition, London (prizewinner)

Visual Aid for Band Aid poster and exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

Cleveland (U.K) International Drawing Biennale, Cleveland County Museum (Major prizewinner)

1986: Love Sacred or Profane?, Plymouth Arts Centre and Stoke-on-Trent Museum

Human Zoo, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham

Sixteen, Angela Flowers Gallery, London

Antithesis, Angela Flowers Gallery, London

Identity/Desire - Representing the Body, Scottish Arts Council and touring

The Print Show, Angela Flowers Gallery, London

1987: Athena Art Awards, Concourse Gallery, Barbican Arts Centre, London

On a Plate, Serpentine Gallery, London

Nicaraguan Solidarity Art by Mail Project, Managua, Nicaragua

Judith Cowan & Amanda Faulkner, Angela Flowers Gallery, London

Self Portrait: A Contemporary View, Artsite Gallery, Bath and touring

Process and Product, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, Lancashire

Print Biennale of Liege, Musee d'Art Moderne, Belgium

Wild Creatures, Arts Council of Great Britain, touring

1988: 10th British International Print Biennale - Britain and Australia

Excavations (with Sue Arrowsmith and Kate Whiteford), Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton

Mother and Child (in aid of Birthright), Lefevre Gallery, London

Leicestershire Education Schools Exhibition

The New British Painting, The Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, touring exhibition

Contemporary Portraits, Flowers East, London

The Drawing Show, Thumb Gallery, London

Figure II: Naked - A Private Mythology, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth and touring

1989: Big Paintings, Flowers East, London

Leicestershire Education Schools Exhibition

Ljubljana Print Biennale, Yugoslavia

Portfolio I, Anderson O'Day Gallery, London

The Print Show, Flowers East, London

The Advent Calendar - A Contemporary View, Gallery North, Cumbria

Portfolio II, Curwen Gallery, London

The Thatcher Years, Flowers East, London

More Artists Against Aparthied, Canon Collins Education Trust for Southern Africa, Merz Gallery, London

Picturing People, British Council, touring National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpar; Hong Kong Museum of Art; The Empress Palace, Singapore

Real Life Stories, Cleveland Collections, Spacex Gallery, Exeter

Angela Flowers Gallery 1990, Barbican Concourse Gallery, London

1990: Flowers at Moos,, Gallery Moos, New York, USA

11th British International Print Biennale, Cartwright Hall, Bradford and touring. (Invited artist)

1991: Inaugural Exhibition, Lannon Cole Gallery, Chicago, USA

Flowers East at Watermans I, Watermans Arts Centre, Middlesex

Drumcroon: The First Ten Years, Arts and Education Centre, Wigan

Fifth Humberside International Print Biennale

European Large Format Printmaking, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin (Invited Artist)

Nudes, Flowers East at Watermans, Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford

The Print Show, Flowers Graphics, London

Postmodern Prints, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1992: Images of Hope and Disquiet - Expressionism in Britain in the Nineties,

Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

Myth, Dream and Fable, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham

Artists' Choice, Flowers East, London

The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London (selected by Marina Vaizey)

1993: Portrait of the Artists Mother done from Memory, Flowers East, London

La lithographie dans tous ses etats, Galerie du Centre Cultural du domaine de Wegimont, Lieges, Belgium.

New Work, Flowers East at London Fields, London

Small is Beautiful Part XI: Homages, Flowers East, London

1994: Inner Visions, Flowers East, London

After Redoute, Flowers East, London

1995: The Twenty Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East at London Fields, London

Angela Flowers Twenty Fifth Anniversary Print Portfolio, Flowers East, London

1996: Naked, Flowers East at London Fields, London

New Monoprints, (Amanda Faulkner and Alison Watt) Flowers East, London

Angela Flowers (Ireland) Inc., Co. Cork, Ireland

Cheltenham Open Drawing, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, Cheltenham

Small is Beautiful, Part XIV: Sex, Flowers East at London Fields, London

The Print Show, Flowers Graphics, London

1997: Angela Flowers Gallery 1997, Flowers East at London Fields, London

Print, Riverside Studios, London

From the Interior, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London; Oldham Art Gallery; Derby Art Gallery; University of Brighton; Hotbath Gallery, Bath

Taboo - Sins and Sensibility, New End Gallery, London

Angela Flowers Gallery (Ireland) Inc., Co. Cork, Ireland

The Body Politic, Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Derby Art Gallery

Absolut Secret, Royal College of Art, London

Small is Beautiful, Part XV: Death, Flowers East at London Fields, London

1998: From the Interior, Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Small is Beautiful, Part XVI: Music, Flowers East, London

1999: The Bryan Montgomery Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Baptist, Hungury

Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition, Cheltenham & Gloucester College, Cheltenham

Angela Flowers Gallery at Riverside Studios, London

Figurative Works on Paper, Flowers East, London

2000:Many Images of a Queen, Marie R, Bourne Fine Art, Edingburgh

The 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East, London

Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London

Works of Artifice, Make–Up Uncovered, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool

Flowers 2, Flowers Central, London

Small is Beautiful: Self Portrait, Flowers East, London

2001:Works of Artifice, Make–Up Uncovered, Williamson Gallery, Birkenhead

Small is Beautiful: Still Life, Flowers East at London Fields, London

2002:Small is Beautiful: Voyage, Flowers East, London

Flowers Eight, Flowers Central, London

32 Years of Angela Flowers Gallery, Flowers East, London

2003:Figure in Print, Flowers Graphics, London

Small is Beautiful: War & Peace, Flowers Central, London

The recent Acquisitions Show, University House, London

2004:Dreaming, Flowers East, London

Spiritus Mundi, Flowers East, London

Contemporary Nudes, Flowers East, London

2005:5th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East, London

Drumcroon Wigan Education Arts Centre, Wigan

Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London

2006:Heads, Flowers Central, London

Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London

2007:Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London

2008:Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London

2009:Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London

2010:40 Years On, Flowers East, London

Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London

2011: Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London

2012: 100 Prints, Flowers Kingsland Road

PUBLIC COLLECTION
Arts Council of Great Britain
National Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Centre Cultural Wegimont, Lieges, Belgium
Contemporary Art Society
Cleveland County Museum
Drumcroon Arts & Education Centre
New Hall College, Cambridge
Silkeborg Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Tate Gallery, London
TSB Group PLC
Unilever PLC
Victoria and Albert Museum
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester

COMMISSIONS
1984: Book cover for Direkte, Mariane Larsen, Denmark (Borgen Forlag)

1985: Record Cover for David Sylvian (Virgin Records)

1986: Cover and illustrations, The Rules of Life, Fay Weldon (Century Hutchinson)

1987: Commissioned work for The Day Book

Book cover and drawings for The Seven Deadly Sins collected short stories edited by A Fell (Serpents Tail)

1998: Book cover for The Deregulated Muse, Sean O’Brien (Bloodaxe Books)

PUBLISHED ARTICLES
1982: Frida Kahlo, Mexican Painter, Feminist Art News

1987: Women Artists Speak, Feminist Art News

1989: Art Monthly, February No 123

BROADCASTS
1985: Studio Five (London): Louise Blair, Eileen Cooper, Amanda Faulkner, Alexis Hunter, Paula Rego

1987: Woman's Hour interview: Three Women Painters (23.2.87)

1991: Third Opinion, BBC Radio 3: Christopher Cook, (4.5.91)

MISCELLANEOUS
1987: Selector, Artist of the Day, Angela Flowers Gallery, London

1988: Selector, Drawn to Print exhibition, Printmakers Council

Guardian Conversations 'The Seven Deadly Sins' with Sara Maitland and Michele Roberts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 24.11.88

1990: Selector, British School of Rome, Printmaking Scholars

Selector, Annual Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

1991: Workshop, Invited Artist; Ana Maria Pacheco Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London

Selector, Open Exhibition: Spacex Gallery,

1992: Picture Choice, The Independent Newspaper, 3.3.1992

(Amanda Faulkner on the Metropolis Triptych by Otto Dix)

1998: Selector, Open Art Exhibition, Chichester

CATALOGUES
Human Interest: 50 Years of British Art about People, Norbert Lynton, 1985
Excavations, John Hansard Gallery, The University, Southampton
Picturing People, Norbert Lynton, The British Council, touring
New British Painting, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinatti, USA, Judith Higgins
Self Portrait - A Modern View,Sean Kelly & Edward Lucie Smith, Sarema Press
Womens Images of Men, edited by Jacqueline Morrow & Sarah Kent, Writers & Readers Pub. Inc. 1985
Human Zoo - Sacred or Profane?
Amanda Faulkner – Mares’ Tails, Michele Roberts/Robert Heller, 2 June - 1 July 1990

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Observer, William Feaver, 24 January 1984
Arts Review, Guy Burn, 17 February 1984
Time Out, Sarah Kent, 19 April 1984
City Limits, Nigel Pollitt, 20 April 1984
Hail the New Gladiators, The Guardian, Waldemar Januszczak, 1 May 1984
Arts Review, Oswell Blakeston, 27 April 1984Harpers & Queen, Barbara Ann Taylor, January 1985
Sister of Mercy?, Studio International, vol.197 no.1007, Waldemar Januszczak, January1985
The Church of the New Art, Flash Art International, Waldemar Januszczak, January1985
Arts Review 1 February 1985
The Listener, Richard Cork, 17 October 1985
Financial Times, 5 November 1985
Art Line, Vol 3 No 2, 1986
The Art of Baby Love, Time Out, Sarah Kent, 16th April 1986
Glasgow Herald, Clare Henry, 10 June 1986
The List, Alice Bain, 17-30 October 1986
Donald Busby, Alba, No 3, Spring 1987
Time Out, Sarah Kent, 23 September 1987
Financial Times, William Packer,10 September 1987
City Limits, Mark Currah,17 September September 1987
Arts Review, Mary Rose Beaumont, 25 September 1987
Arts Review, David Lee, October 1987
Time Out, 1 December 1988
Sheila Hourahane, Arts Review, 16 December 1988
The Exploration of the Self-Amanda Faulkner, Art Monthly, no.123, February 1989
Times London, Andy Lavender, 26 February 1989
The Guardian, Robert Clark, 1 March 1989
Arts Review, David Lovely, March 1989
City Limits, Mark Currah, 1 August 1989
Modern Painters, Peter Jenkins, Summer 1990
Time Out, Sue Hubbard, 27 June - 4 July 1990
The Guardian, Robert Clark, 13 March 1992
The New Times, Journal of the Democratic Left, 21 March 1992
Mary Sara, The Yorkshire Post, 23 March 1992
Manchester Evening News, 26 March 1992
Artist's Choice - Whats on in London, Simon Corbin, 2 September 1992
Time Out, Sue Hubbard, 20 September 1995

Recommended Reading: Amanda Faulkner: Small Mysteries Exhibition Catalogue - Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal, Cumbria. Ltd to 1,000 copies worldwide

18.01.13: gallery

Amanda Faulkner - Big Red Journey (1990) (Detail)
From: Amanda Faulkner: Small Mysteries Exhibition Catalogue
Charcoal and pastel on paper, 160 x 142 cms
© Amanda Faulkner, Flowers East

Amanda Faulkner - Groundswell (1991) (Detail)
From: Amanda Faulkner: Small Mysteries Exhibition Catalogue
Charcoal and pastel on paper, 120 x 158 cms
© Amanda Faulkner, Flowers East

Amanda Faulkner - Small Myseries I (1995) (Detail)
From: Amanda Faulkner: Small Mysteries Exhibition Catalogue
Charcoal and pastel on paper, 75.5 x 106 cms
© Amanda Faulkner, Flowers East

Amanda Faulkner - It's a Girl (1989) (Detail)
From: Amanda Faulkner: Small Mysteries Exhibition Catalogue
Charcoal and pastel on paper, 160 x 142 cms
© Amanda Faulkner, Flowers East

Amanda Faulkner - Small Mysteries I (1995)
From: Amanda Faulkner: Small Mysteries Exhibition Catalogue
Charcoal and pastel on paper, 160 x 142 cms
© Amanda Faulkner, Flowers East

Amanda Faulkner - Foreign Country (1998)
From: Amanda Faulkner: Small Mysteries Exhibition Catalogue
Charcoal and pastel on paper, 160 x 142 cms
© Amanda Faulkner, Flowers East

Amanda Faulkner - Groundswell (1991)
From: Amanda Faulkner: Small Mysteries Exhibition Catalogue
Charcoal and pastel on paper, 160 x 142 cms
© Amanda Faulkner, Flowers East

Amanda Faulkner - Mummy (1998)
From: Amanda Faulkner: Small Mysteries Exhibition Catalogue
Charcoal and pastel on paper, 160 x 142 cms
© Amanda Faulkner, Flowers East

Amanda Faulkner - Lily & Mary (1998)
From: Amanda Faulkner: Small Mysteries Exhibition Catalogue
Charcoal and pastel on paper, 160 x 142 cms
© Amanda Faulkner, Flowers East

Amanda Faulkner - Big Red Journey (1990) (Detail)
From: Amanda Faulkner: Small Mysteries Exhibition Catalogue
Charcoal and pastel on paper, 160 x 142 cms
© Amanda Faulkner, Flowers East
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Amanda Faulkner - Official CV Card (1992) (Detail)
Print Details: Mangas Colorades II, 1989
Etching
Edition 30
63 x 63 cms
Printed by Eric Great Rex
© Amanda Faulkner. Published by Flowers Graphics with Chelsea College of Art, London
For usage of scan without watermark e-mail here

Amanda Faulkner - Official CV Card (1992) (Detail)
Print Details: Mangas Obscuras, 1990
Etching
Edition 25
48 x 55 cms
Printed by Risky Business at Wildman Corner Studio, London
© Amanda Faulkner. Published by Flowers Graphics, London with Risky Business
For usage of scan without watermark e-mail here

Amanda Faulkner - Official CV Card (1992) (Detail)
Print Details: Mangas and the Ghosts, 1990
Etching
Edition 25
48 x 55 cms
Printed by Risky Business at Wildman Corner Studio, London
© Amanda Faulkner. Published by Flowers Graphics, London with Risky Business
For usage of scan without watermark e-mail here

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