Reviews
- December 13th, 2010
Primal Urges: Amanda Nedham at LE Gallery
“Those who know her work won't be surprised to find it once again locked in visceral critique with the human impulse for forced servitude to our animal-world workhorses -- dogs, of course, and, well, horses. Nedham's primary concern is a conceptual taxonomy of the man-beast relationship.”
- December 3rd, 2010
Demonic Meets Dainty in Amanda Nedham’s Animal Art
“The demonic and the dainty have rarely been so expertly, unnervingly combined. You will gasp at Nedham’s imagery, and then take another hiccupping inhale over her masterful drafting skills.”
- January 16th, 2010
Chains, Garden Hoses and Brute Loveliness
“In the back gallery – tucked away darkly as if in a cave – is Amanda Nedham’s sepulchral, operatic installation, Generals Always Die in Bed. Here, in a room that is both crude and brutal (it is roughly constructed of wood) and, at the same time, oddly ornate (the artist describes it as “Versaillesesque”), there is a massive wooden bed which is also, so it would appear (with restraints etc.), a torture machine.”
- January 16th, 2010
Art As Agenda
“Toronto’s Nedham, already known for meticulous drawings on themes of cruelty and torture, here creates a large, ominously darkened room out of scrap wood. The opaqueness of Nedham’s technique – with even the room’s windows rendered in timber – ricochets off Deslauriers’ light, airy approach quite nicely.”
- January 14th, 2010
Whippersnappers No More?
“She carries that forward in full-fledged physical form at Whippersnapper with Generals Always Die In Bed, a rough-hewn installation bashed together of reclaimed wood and leather straps. It would seem an unpleasant place to watch ones final moments slip away, but maybe that’s the point – just desserts for that militaristic urge to take, have and use. Brrr.”
- October 24th, 2009
The True North, Plastic and Dyspeptic
“Nedham’s exhibition of delicate, dangerous, historically and anthropologically anointed drawings is almost as exhausting as it is exhilarating. It is exhilarating because her drawings are so ambitious, because she has attempted so much. It is exhausting because each of these exquisitely-wrought, superbly worked images is made to bear a ponderous weight of reading and research.”
Mentions
- December 15th, 2010
At LE Gallery
“Her fastidious yet passionate crosshatching creates deep layers of tonality in the work. At times it seems earnestly precise, yet the feeling of painterly movement which is enhanced by the deep grooves into the soft paper, or even by the occasional uninterrupted smudge into the clean white background speak for Nedham’s dynamic inspirations.”
- December 14th, 2010
Amanda Nedham - Like Milk and Blood
“Like Milk and Blood, the title of her current exhibition on now at Le Gallery, is a tour through Nedham’s amateur anthropological research as shown through the furry friends of humanity. The most common mammalian motifs in the show are predictably dogs and horses.”
- December 9th, 2010
Fine techniques at LE Gallery
“Nedham, a rising star around these parts, has created some exquisite pencil drawings featuring animals and objects in strange configurations.”
- October 1st, 2010
Amanda Nedham in Bloodletting
“The young artist’s almost accidentally persistent undercurrent of humour is most evident when you are privileged to watch as someone unsuspectingly inserts their hand past the folds of silk-screened fabric to experience over 600 hand sculpted polymer clay “teeth” in the body of this little headless beast.”
- January 16th, 2010
Artist Talk at Whippersnapper Gallery
- December 28th, 2009
Late Night in the Bedroom: Episode 6
- November 25th, 2008
Artist Profile
“Unpredictable incidents and marks, not unlike what happens with an etching plate, directly informed the next step as layers encrusted layers, serving to convolute the original meaning. It was the discovery of what emerged when the lines began to autonomously construct something altogether new that led me to the current incarnation of my work.”
Amanda Nedham