Amalie Silvani-Jones

Glasgow School of Art Graduate 2012
Working artist based in Glasgow

The purpose of my work is to express my emotions and my ideas. This is what I must do in order to comprehend all of the information around me and to realize my emotions: this is the way I process life.

I am interested in the human reality of living in complete ignorance, and never coming to terms with the fact that each of us truly knows nothing at all. In the face of this and the inevitability of death I make works that attempt to make sense of everything at once.

Although I predominantly work with paint, the materials I use to create my work are changeable; secondary to the thoughts and feelings the work was born out of, but an important part of my practice. I feed off experimentation with new materials and methods, so as not to be tied down by the materiality of certain mediums.

I am interested in deconstructing what is considered taboo, and have been particularly involved in thinking about gender and sexuality; this questioning is apparent in my work. I have learnt to use art as a space to express struggle, to question the nature of societal structures and the individuals' place within these structures.

2009 – 2012 BA Hons in Painting &Printmaking at The Glasgow School of Art

2006 – 2008 Two years of BA Fine Art at Lancaster University

November 2012: Green City Studios Exhibition and Open Studios, exhibiting artist, Green City Studios, Glasgow.

October 2012: Radiius 6 (exhibition and zine launch), exhibiting artist and curator, CCA, Glasgow.

August 2012: OWWO, exhibiting artist, Summerhall, Edinburgh.

July 2012: New Firm post-degree group show, exhibiting artist and curator, Candid Arts Trust, London.

June 2012: Glasgow School of Art Degree Show, Mackintosh Building, Glasgow.

March 2012: I Dream Therefore I am, Exhibition/party with Jeanie Allport Bryson, Exhibiting artist and curator, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow.

May 2011: The Spectacle of Pain, Joint exhibition with Stephanie Burt, Exhibiting artist and curator, 37 Dalhousie St, Glasgow.

November 2010: Incidental Things, Joint exhibition with Sofia Stavropoulou, Exhibiting artist and curator, The Vic Gallery, Glasgow.

October 2010: 24 Dunearn St: An Exhibition of Sketches and Early Works, Group show, Exhibiting artist and curator, Dunearn St, Glasgow.

August 2009: Me, Myself and Why, Solo exhibition, Newhampton Arts Centre, Wolverhampton.