ARTIST STATEMENT
Amy Mahoney's experimental practice is a personal pursuit of the effect of colour and form. A patchwork of a journey as seen through her eyes. The Essex-based recent graduate creates compositions which evoke an intuitive reaction in the viewer, something you can't always explain but is feeling that strikes your core.
Concerned by the ambiguous and the mundane, the works push gestural qualities and forms found through chance encounters, such as shadows, graffiti and structural components and faults. Responding and resonating with the matter around us, the paintings oscillate between chaos and controlled amplifications of what Amy calls the ‘unnoticed and overlooked’, combining them in harmony with meditative bodily movements. What remains is an index the individual forms, amplified and edited during reproduction, and the process of production itself, with brush marks, spray of paint, and oil stick markings reimagining and redeveloping the subject matter into something new; translating the unnoticed and overlooked into something that demands your observation.

EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS
BRENTWOOD ART TRAIL // JULY 2021
Group Exhibition // Brentwood, Multiple Locations
DRAWING DIALOGUE 3 // JUNE - JULY 2021
Group Exhibition // Keighley Creative
SELF.IDENTITY // JULY 2020
Group Exhibition // Virtual
THE JELLY EAR // DECEMBER 2019
Publication // One
INTIMATELY FAMILIAR // JUNE 2019
Group Exhibition // Cobham Hall
PLATFORM GRADUATE AWARD WITH TURNER CONTEMPORARY // 2019 AWARD
Graduate Award // Long-listed
CORNER TO CORNER: UCA CANTERBURY FINE ART DEGREE SHOW // JUNE 2019
Degree Show Group Exhibition // UCA Canterbury
FAB LAB // MARCH - APRIL 2019
Group Exhibition // The Brewery Tap, Folkestone
SHELF: CURATORIAL PROJECT SPACE // FEBRUARY 2019
Group Exhibition // UCA Canterbury
INTERTWINED // APRIL 2018
Solo Exhibition // Joseph Wales Studios, Margate
ΣΙΓΑ ΣΙΓΑ // APRIL 2018
Group Exhibition // Cyprus College of Art

EDUCATION
BA Fine Art (Hons) // Graduated with a First
University for the Creative Arts, UCA Canterbury // 2017-2019
Eurasmus Placement with PEATS
Cyprus College of Arts // March - April 2018
BA Fine Art (Hons) // First year only
Falmouth University // 2016-2017