Avenues

Amanda Seibæk, ‘Burnt’, 118 x 148 cm, oil, pastel and ink on voile, 2023

Amanda Seibæk, ‘Tender’, pastel and ink on caleco, 118 x 88 cm, 2023

Installation view, Amanda Seibæk, Patricia Fleming, 2024

Amanda Seibæk, ‘Cerebrum’, 180 x 200 cm, oil, pastel, screenprint and ink on voile, 2022

Installation view, Amanda Seibæk, Avenues, Patricia Fleming, 2024

Installation view, Amanda Seibæk, Avenues, Patricia Fleming, 2024

Amanda Seibæk, ‘Plum Season’, etching, 31 x 29 cm, 2022

Amanda Seibæk, ‘Outlines’, 38 x 39 cm, etching, 2023

Amanda Seibæk, ‘Prelude’, 118 x 148 cm, 2023

AVENUES
Amanda Seibæk
29/02 – 30/03/24
Open Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 12 – 5pm
Thursday, 12 – 7pm

We are delighted to present Glasgow based artist Amanda Seibæk’s first large-scale solo exhibition in our new gallery.

Danish-born Amanda Seibæk has continued to develop her screen printing and painting practice, since graduating from the Glasgow School of Art in 2022. This new body of work continues her interests in literature and scientific explanations of natural phenomena.

Seibæk is inspired by the traditions of autotheory, the combinations of narrative, autobiography, memoir and critical theory. Seibæk recounts writers like Maggie Nelson, who connect multiple fields of knowledge, never deeming any irrelevant for her explorations. Across multiple planes and layers of paint on transparent voile, Seibæk explores broader questions of philosophy, astrology, science and culture within personal experiences, as a way to navigate our way through life. Seibæk uses these ideas as a metaphorical tools to express turmoil in contemporary life though a more poetic lense. This can be used as a force to ask questions, to visualise thoughts and emotions, by example in her largest painting; ‘Cerebrum’ the human form blurs and blends into a fictitious narrative.

When working with screen print and paint Seibæk is developing a language that does not divide or isolate printmaking as a separate component of her practice. Instead Seibæk’s images exist in three complimentary mediums; digital, print, and paint. The screen’s reflectiveness inspires the choice of surface and the multiple layers of printing. The transfer of print onto canvas or as seen predominantly on voile in Avenues, orchestrates the composition on the final painting which she completes with her brush. Through this material process, Seibæk analyses the interlinking relationship between emotion and motion to create images that views can connect with.

I see colours in layers and with colours I start to shape my figures.
– Seibæk

Artist Talk: Join the gallery for an Artist Talk by Amanda Seibæk on the occasion of the exhibition.
Thursday 28 March, 2024, 6 – 7pm. Booking essential via Eventbrite

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