Amanda Potts

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Working with what resists resolution — the space between presence and absence, image and language, legibility and erasure.

My practice reflects a quiet refusal: of fixed identity, clear narrative, or visual certainty. I’m drawn to materials that carry memory without clarity — stained, folded, fading — and to gestures that do not settle but remain in motion.

I explore how intimacy, fear, and transformation coexist in the everyday. The spaces I create are porous and unresolved — like memory, like becoming.

This isn’t avoidance, but a staying-with. A way of moving gently around what can’t be settled, of letting things unfold without demanding they explain themselves.



Selected Works

Shaped By Stories Never Lived, Folded Piece No. 2.
2025


Rehearsal Without a Stage, Folded Piece No. 3.
2025
Folded Piece No. 4.
2025


Untitled Fold
100cm x 100 cm
2024

Untitled Fold
100cm x 100 cm
2024

These works explores the dynamic relationship between materiality and meaning through folded canvas techniques inspired by Deleuze's theory of the Fold and Simon Hantaï's methodologies. The deliberate folding creates a co-creative process where intention meets chance, embodying concepts of becoming and transformation. As color and form interact across overlapping surfaces, the piece exists in a state of continual emergence—the canvas no longer a boundary but a continuum where presence meets absence. These geometric interventions reveal how identity and meaning are shaped through unfolding experiences, with each fold creating new relationships between what is concealed and what is revealed."

Paint Drip
50 × 230 cm
2024




Wallscape
Video collage of Artist Studio Wall
2024


Layers and Hiding Space
Central Saint Martins Interim Show
2024


“Layers and Hiding Spaces" documents 3 months of painting on my studio wall. In recreating the wall I've captured a moment of an ongoing process of layering and concealment. The fragmented text visible here echoes the now-unseeable layers of the original wall paintings, preserving the dialogue between revelation and concealment, making visible the palimpsest-like quality of the studio process.

Artist Studio Wall
Limited Edition Print
Canson Photo Rag – 297 × 420 mm