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
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
1996: Mares’ Tails, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
1998: Small Mysteries
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
1984:Faulkner, Joseph, Kowalsky, Angela Flowers Gallery, London and Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton
1984: What's New in the Arts Council Collection - touring
1984: New Images in Printmaking, Blond Fine Art, London
1984: 9th International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, Yugoslavia
1984: International Senefelder, Siftung, Offenbach, W.Germany
1985: Passion and Power, La Galeria 2nd Class, New York
1985: Double Elephant, Concourse Gallery, Barbican Arts Centre, London
1985: Black and White, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1985: Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts, 5th National Exhibition and touring
1985: International Printmaking Exhibition, Messina,
1985: The Print Show - Woodcuts and Linocuts, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1985: Artists Against Apartheid, Royal Festival Hall, London
1985: Human Interest, Cornerhouse, Manchester
1985: Figure I, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
1985: Royal Overseas League Annual Exhibition, London (prizewinner)
1985: Visual Aid for Band Aid poster and exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1985: Cleveland (U.K) International Drawing Biennale, Cleveland County Museum (Major prizewinner)
1986: Love Sacred or Profane?, Plymouth Arts Centre and Stoke-on-Trent Museum
1986: Human Zoo, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham
1986: Sixteen, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1986: Antithesis, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1986: Identity/Desire - Representing the Body, Scottish Arts Council and touring
1986: The Print Show, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1987: Athena Art Awards, Concourse Gallery, Barbican Arts Centre, London
1987: On a Plate, Serpentine Gallery, London
1987: Nicaraguan Solidarity Art by Mail Project, Managua, Nicaragua
1987: Judith Cowan & Amanda Faulkner, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1987: Self Portrait: A Contemporary View, Artsite Gallery, Bath and touring
1987: Process and Product, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, Lancashire
1987: Print Biennale of Liege, Musee d'Art Moderne, Belgium
1987: Wild Creatures, Arts Council of Great Britain, touring
1988: 10th British International Print Biennale - Britain and Australia, Cartwright Hall, Bradford and touring
1988: Excavations (with Sue Arrowsmith and Kate Whiteford), Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
1988: Mother and Child (in aid of Birthright), Lefevre Gallery, London
1988: Leicestershire Education Schools Exhibition
1988: The New British Painting, The Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, touring exhibition
1988: Contemporary Portraits, Flowers East, London
1988: The Drawing Show, Thumb Gallery, London
1988: Figure II: Naked - A Private Mythology, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth and touring
1989: Big Paintings, Flowers East, London
1989: Leicestershire Education Schools Exhibition
1989: Ljubljana Print Biennale, Yugoslavia
1989: Portfolio I, Anderson O'Day Gallery, London
1989: The Print Show, Flowers East, London
1989: The Advent Calendar - A Contemporary View, Gallery North, Cumbria
1989: Portfolio II, Curwen Gallery, London
1989: The Thatcher Years, Flowers East, London
1989: More Artists Against Aparthied, Canon Collins Education Trust for Southern Africa, Merz Gallery, London
1989: Picturing People, British Council, touring National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpar; Hong Kong Museum of Art; The Empress Palace, Singapore
1989: Real Life Stories, Cleveland Collections, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
1989: Angela Flowers Gallery 1990, Barbican Concourse Gallery, London
1990: Flowers at Moos,, Gallery Moos, New York, USA
1990: 11th British International Print Biennale, Cartwright Hall, Bradford and touring. (Invited artist)
1991: Inaugural Exhibition, Lannon Cole Gallery, Chicago, USA
1991: Flowers East at Watermans I, Watermans Arts Centre, Middlesex
1991: Drumcroon: The First Ten Years, Arts and Education Centre, Wigan
1991: Fifth Humberside International Print Biennale
1991: European Large Format Printmaking, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin (Invited Artist)
1991: Nudes, Flowers East at Watermans, Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford
1991: The Print Show, Flowers Graphics, London
1991: Postmodern Prints, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1992: Images of Hope and Disquiet - Expressionism in Britain in the Nineties,
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
1992: Myth, Dream and Fable, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
1992: Artists' Choice, Flowers East, London
1992: The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London (selected by Marina Vaizey)
1993: Portrait of the Artists Mother done from Memory, Flowers East, London
1993: La lithographie dans tous ses etats, Galerie du Centre Cultural du domaine de Wegimont, Lieges, Belgium.
1993: New Work, Flowers East at London Fields, London
1993: Small is Beautiful Part XI: Homages, Flowers East, London
1994: Inner Visions, Flowers East, London
1994: After Redoute, Flowers East, London
1995: The Twenty Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East at London Fields, London
1995: Angela Flowers Twenty Fifth Anniversary Print Portfolio, Flowers East, London
1996: Naked, Flowers East at London Fields, London
1996: New Monoprints, (Amanda Faulkner and Alison Watt) Flowers East, London
1996: Angela Flowers (Ireland) Inc., Co. Cork, Ireland
1996: Cheltenham Open Drawing, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, Cheltenham
1996: Small is Beautiful, Part XIV: Sex, Flowers East at London Fields, London
1996: The Print Show, Flowers Graphics, London
1997: Angela Flowers Gallery 1997, Flowers East at London Fields, London
1997: Print, Riverside Studios, London
1997: 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
1997: Taboo - Sins and Sensibility, New End Gallery, London
1997: Angela Flowers Gallery (Ireland) Inc., Co. Cork, Ireland
1997: The Body Politic, Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Derby Art Gallery
1997: Absolut Secret, Royal College of Art, London
1997: Small is Beautiful, Part XV: Death, Flowers East at London Fields, London
1998: From the Interior, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
1998: Small is Beautiful, Part XVI: Music, Flowers East, London
1999: The Bryan Montgomery Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Baptist, Hungury
1999: Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition, Cheltenham & Gloucester College, Cheltenham
1999: Angela Flowers Gallery at Riverside Studios, London
1999: Figurative Works on Paper, Flowers East, London
2000: Many Images of a Queen, Marie R, Bourne Fine Art, Edingburgh
2000: The 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East, London
2000: Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London
2000: Works of Artifice, Make–Up Uncovered, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
2000: Flowers 2, Flowers Central, London
2000: Small is Beautiful: Self Portrait, Flowers East, London
2001:Works of Artifice, Make–Up Uncovered, Williamson Gallery, Birkenhead
2001: Small is Beautiful: Still Life, Flowers East at London Fields, London
2002:Small is Beautiful: Voyage, Flowers East, London
2002: Flowers Eight, Flowers Central, London
2002: 32 Years of Angela Flowers Gallery, Flowers East, London
2003:Figure in Print, Flowers Graphics, London
2003: Small is Beautiful: War & Peace, Flowers Central, London
2003: The recent Acquisitions Show, University House, London
2004:Dreaming, Flowers East, London
2004: Spiritus Mundi, Flowers East, London
2004: Contemporary Nudes, Flowers East, London
2005:5th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East, London
2005: Drumcroon Wigan Education Arts Centre, Wigan
2005: Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London
2006:Heads, Flowers Central, London
2006: 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
2010: 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
1987: 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
1988: 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
1990: Selector, Annual Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
1991: Workshop, Invited Artist; Ana Maria Pacheco Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London
1991: 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
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 - 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 - Big Red Journey (1990) (Detail)
© 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 - Cardinal (1990) (Detail)
© 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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