Amanda Schunker

This work of Amanda Schunker's exhibition 'Song of Increase' draws on parallels with the most joyful of sounds produced by a colony of bees working together, amplifying their vibrations into an audible hum. She poses the questions - Is this possible for humans also? How do we find ways to raise our vibration, particularly if we find ourselves in the depths of grief and despair? Is it possible to do so collectively? Where do we return to, where time stands still?

Says Schunker of her work: “I find myself traversing the landscape time and time again, finding solace within the magnitude of rock formations. These ancient, non-denominational forms dwarf any reticence. I paint en plein air, melding the nuances and intricacies before me, with a sense of immediacy and uninhibited responses. In the studio, colour becomes a catalyst to induce an increased emotive state. The collision of mark-making, adding and subtracting, triggers memory; a new porthole evolves.

“Through my work, I hope to transcend the viewer to another realm, a realm in which they enter a place of their own internal landscape.”