Amanda Donohue

Amanda has been a practicing artist for about 25 years – working as a printmaker and textile artist. She creates etchings, lino prints, drypoints as well as unique hand sewn or dyed items including scarves, runners, vessels (bowls, vases), bags, coasters. A life-time love of textiles and interest in the ‘genderisation’ of embroidery often see her combining mediums, printing onto textiles or hand stitching into prints.

 

Amanda’s practice is influenced by multiple themes including domesticity, innocence and popular culture. She investigates the connection between these themes and images or items from her own personal history – an event, a person or place, physical or ephemeral. Activities, thoughts, items reoccur daily, weekly, monthly. Repetition makes for familiarity and meditation. Patterns form and life continues.

Amanda is a member of the Newcastle Printmakers Workshop, the Make Space collective and Art-in-Sync. She works teaches printmaking and textile techniques, works part time for a regional arts organisation and, in 2023, was a mentor for Newcastle Art Space.