Telluric Leanings

Amy Winstanley

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Biography

Amy Winstanley’s work merges observations and research with intuitive mark-making drawn from personal experience, emotion, and memory. She researches into eco-philosophy, feminist theory, indigenous thought and using the sensorium to experience the world differently—with a focus on our entanglement in, and estrangement from, the more-than-human world. In her process, she oscillates between spontaneous gestures and conscious painterly expressions. She creates space through layers of oil paint and builds shapes and colors that immerse the viewer into a place where there is suggestion of things and an undoing of depiction in a fluid way. Winstanley is interested in the everyday occurrences of birth, death, joy and sadness and uses paintings to think through personal experiences of love, loss, and her relationship to the other-than-human world. She is fascinated by the act of painting itself—the movement of the hand and paintbrush on canvas—the energy of creating something from nothing. ...

Selected Artworks
Always Already Becoming
Amy Winstanley
Always Already Becoming, 2023
103 x 93cm
Coming Together Apart
Amy Winstanley
Coming Together Apart, 2023
46.02 x 26.97cm
It's Tasty
Amy Winstanley
It's Tasty, 2023
54 x 64cm
Telluric Leanings
Amy Winstanley
Telluric Leanings, 2023
61 x 66cm
Wet Street
Amy Winstanley
Wet Street, 2023
46 x 41cm
Evening Monuments to a Life Lesson
Amy Winstanley
Evening Monuments to a Life Lesson, 2023
150 x 120cm
Gallery Representation
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