Amanda Watson is a visual artist who lives in Aotearoa New Zealand, her studio is located in Whaingaroa Raglan. Her paintings embody the vitality of the gestural mark and complexities of the environments as they are made in-situ, and her work connects to a lineage of environmental and performative movements. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Visual Art Practice, and a Research Associate with the Waikato Institute of Technology Te Pūkenga. You can find more about her work here https://www.amandawatson.com/
Publications
Affective Witness, Dr Zara Stanhope. In and of the Earth [2023].
Pukekura en plein air: The paintings of Amanda Watson in the environment and in context, Edward Hanfling. In and of the Earth [2023].
The Lie of the Land: Amanda Watson and the Landscape, Laurence Simmons. Art New Zealand, Issue 190 [2024].
Painting encounters with environments: experiencing the territory of familiar places, Amanda Watson. Journal of Visual Art Practice, Vol 20:1-2. DOI:10.1080/14702029.2021.1925856
Painting with Ōtepoti Dunedin, Amanda Watson. Scope Art & Design Journal [Nov 2023] https://doi.org/10.34074/scop.1023026
Where Do I Come From? What Am I? Where Am I Going? The Problem of Self-Discovery in Art Making as Research Inquiry, Edward Hanfling. Scope Art & Design Journal, 24 [2023]. https://doi.org/10.34074/scop.1024024
Research Presentations
AAANZ Art Association of Australia and New Zealand [2021-2023]
Waikato Institute of Technology Research Symposiums [2021-2024]
Painting with Places, DJCAD, University of Dundee [2023]
Immateriality in Painting, Research Programme, ITIA, St Andrews University [2024]
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