
Amanda Faulkner, Ceremony, 1984, Pastel and charcoal on paper (detail)
Amanda Faulkner
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Biography
AMANDA FAULKNER (b 1953)
London-based Amanda Faulkner's distinctive style references figuration, Expressionism, and Surrealism, reflecting an intimate female perspective. After receiving an MA from Chelsea School of Art, London, Faulkner spent two years in South America as part of a two-person team making anthropological films of the Canai of Ecuador, and also worked there as an illustrator of short books on the mythology of an Amazonian group.