Artist
Amy Dury
Informed by her background in printmaking, Amy Dury's paintings reference stills from home movies and photographs that instinctively resonate with her, usually relating to dynamics of power and hierarchies within society. Starting with a strong idea of colour, she uses both oil and acrylic paint alongside charcoal and pencil to build the layers of her composition, allowing the work to evolve as it is constructed; loose and textured painterly marks exist alongside more precise detail.
By looking back into her past, Amy employs the act of memory and mis-remembering in her work, with photographs and film becoming the method of constructing narratives. Digital processes are also involved to build the scenes and suggest colours, further abstracting the memory. Amy Dury studied BA Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art and an MA Fine Art at University of Brighton, where she now works from.
"Our history instructs, seduces and tethers us, and I look to use paint to examine these emotive memories which reflect current themes and tensions in contemporary life."
