Loop Amanda Edgecombe
Date: February 2023
Exhibition/Show Type:
Solo
Media: Painting, Printmaking
Exhibition Description
Printmaking provides a tangible and vivid way for Edgcombe to examine ideas as well to take concepts back to the studio.
Loop was a solo show co-curated with Celia Lyttleton.
Printmaking provides a tangible and vivid way for Edgcombe to examine ideas as well to take concepts back to the studio. Colour and marks made through print can then be explored through paint and the layering of new forms.
Under the tutorship of Bartolomeu de Santos and Oona Grimes on the Slade printmaking course the layering of colour with textural aquatint, spit bite and the antipathy of grease and water *became part of Edgcombe’s personal mark making narrative.
Viscosity etching, a technique tested at the Slade allowed the layering of multiple colours, so that vibrant and graphically decisive prints with shaded overlays could combine hard and soft patterns.
The prints have become powerful works in their own right with the ability to create images hard found with paint, using the whiteness of the paper and the transparency of ink.
Edgcombe’s work has been widely shown and collected.
Since 2008 when she and her family relocated to Suffolk Edgcombe has focussed on her Fine Art practice whilst retaining her strong interest in design and continuing this professional practice.
