Amanda Williams’ research-driven practice focuses on analogue photographic techniques and the interconnections between the history of photography and natural environments. She has an interest in the potential of the photograph as a material object, with particular attention paid to fieldwork and the hand printing of images in the darkroom using alchemical processes – light, time, chemistry, film and paper substrate. What we see in her photographs is something unfixed: a vision moving, experimental and transforming. — interview with Michael Fitzgerald

Recent series have included mural-scaled silver gelatin hand prints documenting alpine landscapes of high conservation value, colour-saturated phytograms (the interaction between the chemistry of plants and silver sulphide surfaces), architecturally-scaled photograms and portraiture.

Key exhibitions

The National 4: Australian Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, curated by Jane Devery, 2023

In the arms of unconsciousness: Women, feminism & the surreal, curated by Carrie Kibbler, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, 2023

PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography: The Truth, 2021 | Metro Tunnel Creative Program | Royal Botanic Gardens, Anzac Station precinct, Melbourne

Archie Plus, curated by Isobel Parker Phillip, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2020-2021

Key readings

Anneke Jaspers, ‘Amanda Williams’, The National 4: Australian Art Now, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2023, p.140

Collections

Art Gallery of Ballarat
Murray Art Museum Albury
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Powerhouse
Wesfarmers

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