Dr Amanda Stuart is a Canberra based visual artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally (Denmark and U.S.A). She has installed public art works in Canberra and Goulburn. She is an art educator with a deep love of Country, music and writing.
Her sculptural works produce objects that sit in the environment to invite psychic re-imaginings of old, unhealed wounds between humans and unwanted animals. Embedded in a materiality of the Australian regional landscape and its fauna, her works often refer to the social, cultural, ethical and political difficulties surrounding estranged human animal relations within contested landscapes. Stuart’s practice embraces drawing, installation, object making and in-situ photographic documentation.
Stuart has a PhD in Visual Arts (Sculpture) and a Bachelor of Science (Land Management) – the latter of which profoundly informs her understanding of white settlers’ colonizing relationships to the land. Increasingly, her art practice embraces cross-cultural and interdisciplinary strategies and acknowledges our First People's inherent relationships with Country.
