Amanda Wallwork is an artist and curator based in Dorset. Her current practice is a continuing enquiry into landscape based around a series of research projects with associated exhibitions and commissions, specifically concerned with the archaeology and geology of place. Informed by a process of immersion, extraction and abstraction the work is a form of mapping or shorthand for a collection of ideas and ideologies, symbolising an activity in time and place.

Much of her work is a combination of painting and drawing, constructed from layers of plaster and oil paint, continuously built up and sanded down and then drawn on or scratched through to expose the layers beneath. A process that evokes the experience of archaeological excavations and erosion. Recent commissions have offered the opportunity to use different approaches and media including maps, graphic posters and products. Her work is held in many private collections and she is represented in Cornwall by Belgrave Gallery St Ives. She was elected member of the RWA in 2014.

2019: Ongoing research projects

Lost Fields: The lost landscape of Portland, Dorset

The Colour of Time: Investigating geological mapping systems

Deep Time: Expressing geological timescales

Mapping the Ridgeway: Revealing the lost sites of this significant archaeological area

Timewalking: Walking the old ways, exploring ancient tracks and byways determined by the geology of an area.

See STATEMENT and PROJECTS for further information