Amanda Wood
We’re so excited to welcome Amanda Wood back to The Ou, and as our first artist on Gabriola Island!
Learn more about her process and incredible portfolio at https://www.amandawoodstudio.com/
ABOUT
Amanda Wood works with tactile media in a third space where time and materials overlap and inform each other. Through object manipulation, Wood makes accidental discoveries and loosens control as she slips between etching, handweaving and darkroom photography. She allows dangling threads, holes, and glitches to come forward as a response to the embodied slippages that Wood experiences as a multi-ethnic woman existing between cultural spaces. Through abstracted forms, grounded in the metaphors of cloth, she searches for optimistic alternatives to post-colonial narratives.
Wood was awarded Canada Council for the Arts grants in 2020 and 2021. Her work has been featured in Galleries West and Uppercase Magazine and has been exhibited across Canada. She has a BA from Simon Fraser University and a diploma in textile art from Capilano University.
Wood has participated in several residencies, most recently a micro-residency at the New Media Gallery in New Westminster, BC. She currently lives and works on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples in Vancouver, BC with her family.