Spring Womens Exhibition 2006
Amanda Proctor has been working as an artist all of her career. She was educated at Prahran College Fine Art Dept and GIAE Visual Arts obtaining her degree. Through Amanda's time as a single woman she was a set designer, illustrator and fabric designer always fascinated by contemporary art. Since her marriage to John Baird a highly successful and acclaimed contemporary painter and sculptor, Amanda's work has been secondary to her role as wife and mother.
The works seen in The Spring Women's Exhibition deal with the nature of destiny, the ideas of luck and chance and the changes involved in the fortunes of our lives. The imagery of the clown masked, smiling, pensive and sad, represents the moods we all encounter. This clown is an 'everyman' on the stage of life with his 'house of cards' playing with the hand he is dealt. One image represents the artist being amazed and persuaded by one such clown. The 'Roll of the Dice', Amanda states, quite clearly refers to the gamble of life particularly as an artist. The jigsaw means much about the fragile nature of the human condition as we try and somehow manage to get it together. The 'Feelings in Mime' soft form relief sculpture give up their meaning in terms of being very legible expressions we all have. They are silent gestures. These are rather cliché, interesting Art for Arts Sake.
ap7 - Feelings in Mime $1000
Feelings in Mime side view
ap 8 - Mirror - POA
ap5 - Playing Cards & Dice I - $500
ap6 - Playing Cards & Dice II $500
ap4 - Jigsaw - $800
ap1 - Australian Still Life - $800
ap2 - Stain Glass - window $500
ap3 - Blue Glass Bowl - $500