Artist's Statement

Amanda Schunker is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores identity, heritage, and the migrant experience through an abstract engagement with landscape. Anchored in the rugged geometry of the Australian environment, her works investigate notions of belonging, memory, and human interconnectedness. Geological formations and fragmented outcrops become both metaphor and structure – grounding devices through which Schunker examines the relationship between place and self.

Central to her practice is an intuitive process of translating the physical energy of the landscape into layered fields of colour, texture, and gesture. Working between direct observation and studio recollection, Schunker begins each work in situ, using custom-made tools to establish the foundational marks of a composition from the source itself. These initial forms are later developed through rhythmic mark-making and visceral applications of pigment, allowing a distinct “sense of place” to emerge. Drawing on her background in textile design, her works balance material sensitivity with expressive abstraction, holding structure and spontaneity in dynamic tension.