Amanda Wood works in between materials and processes to build a visual language that gives shape and voice to divergent minds and bodies. She uses her ephemeral and tactile practice to invite dialogue between the traditional and the everyday.
Her research combines materials with processes that are unmasterable. Grounded in craft, science and archival practices she focusses on the outcasts created by learning and unlearning. The plurality and possibility found in merging the everyday, the unknowable and the temporal creates layers of complexity and space to reclaim identity.
Amanda has been awarded multiple Canada Council for the Arts grants, participated in gallery shows in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver and residencies at the Ou Gallery, Emily Carr University and others. She has a BA in Communications from Simon Fraser University and a diploma in Textile Art from Capilano University. Amanda currently lives in Vancouver, BC.