Sarah Amos        
Biography           
 

'My work is a fusion of both land and cityscape. The Australian landscape is central to my work. It has influential references by my use of colour, idiosyncratic marks and open spaces. I am interested in interpreting these spatially dynamic real and half forgotten landscapes and my relationship to them. These works on paper are personalised maps of accumulated information through layers of printed media, drawing and painting.

The work is developed through a series of printed layers, filters and screens. A continual interest in all things scientific is often buried deep within these histories, laminating past images to the next wave of cultural interest. New to this body of work is my interest in the distillation and minimalization of knowledge that is exhibited through the visual graphics of scientific diagrams. Selected diagrams become dynamic and informative landscapes that are drafted into minimal lines. The knowledge is pared down, simplified and ordered into a clean analysis ready for instant translation into an architectural landscape of line, volume and space.

The new images encompass many of the earth sciences, especially geology and geography. The large drawings also incorporate seismic and bathymetric data, plate techtonics and topographical map. The compositions are about the intersections of this accumulated data, where the urban matrix and geo-elements jostle to form a new technical landscape. I want to record this information in my current work by mirroring these shifts and upheavals where the weather of landscape and the immense power it conveys has begun to take on a new and vital meaning.'
Sarah Amos 2010

Sarah Amos's work is represented in corporate, public and private collections nationally and internationally including the Time Warner Collection, New York; Dartmouth- Hitchcock, Permanent Collection, New Hampshire; Alliance Capitol, New York; The Katonah Museum, Katonah, New York; The De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts and Prudential Insurance, Boston, Massachusetts.

 
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Weeping Lilly Pilly
2010, collograph and mixed media, 38 x 99cm;
Woolly Tea Tree 2010, collograph and mixed media, 38 x 99cm;
Red Boppel Nut 2010, collograph and mixed media, 38 x 99cm