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Amanda Mahony is an emerging multimedia artist based in Eora/Sydney, who paints atmospheric, abstract Australian landscapes informed by her childhood connection to nature.
Her landscapes focus on the meeting point of the sky and the land, capturing the feeling of deep connection to nature while remaining grounded and offering viewers a quiet space for reflection on place, memories, and experiences.
Her process-based practice involves working with acrylics, impasto mediums and oil sticks. Mahony employs sgraffito, sanding, scoring and scraping away layers to reveal the underlying colours and textures. She also builds depth and atmosphere through layers of translucent glazes.
Her work reflects observations of the bush, sky, water and mountains, focusing on colour and texture to convey the feeling of being on a bush walk or taking a road trip.
Mahony works across her canvases like a tapestry, building the surface over time, which reflects the gradual, evolving changes found in nature.
Amanda is a 2023 BFA painting graduate of the National Art School and holds a Bachelor of Media (Journalism and Communication) from Macquarie University, Sydney.
She expanded her skills by spending four months studying oil painting under the mentorship of artists Dimitra Milan and Ellie Milan at the Milan Art Institute in Arizona, USA in 2019.
Amanda's artwork has been featured on ABC iview's TV series OPTICS and she has been exhibited as a 2025 finalist in the 'Fairholme Open Art Prize Exhibition’, Toowoomba, QLD. She exhibits in group exhibitions at Sydney Road Gallery and Tiliqua Tiliqua Gallery.
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“The story behind 'I Saw You As Yourself'.
“The duality of existence is reflected in our physical world - light and dark, the sun and the moon, and so on, but it also is the very nature of what it means to be human.
“As was written famously by Stevenson in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, every human being has good and evil within them, but what’s important is how you behave and the decisions you make.
“Ultimately as with the natural world, it’s all about balance and this artwork is a reminder that being human is complicated and something that we all live with - a side-effect, if you will, of the human condition.”
Amanda Mahoney, 2021.
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