Amanda Thomson
Joins the expedition for week 2
Amanda Thomson graduated from the Glasgow School of Art and completed an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008. She has a background in the social sciences and previously worked in the voluntary sector.
Her creative practice is ideas and research-led, fusing traditional and digital printmaking techniques, photography, bookmaking, video, installation and sound. Her work is often about landscape, place and space: how we are located (and locate ourselves) in the world, absence and subtle presence. Related interests include explorations about migration, and notions of ‘home’ and ‘nativity’, coupled with the mutability and temporality of belonging.
In October 2009 she started an arts-practice led, interdisciplinary PhD based at the University of the Highlands and Islands, with the anthropology department of the University of Aberdeen. Drawing on art, anthropology and human geography in particular, and with a fieldwork element feeding into her arts practice, the PhD is entitled, In the forest, field and studio: art/ making/ methodology in explorations of familiarity and unfamiliarity, in some of the forests and landscapes of the North of Scotland.
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