Biography

Amanda Moore has lived in Auckland, New Zealand for 20 years. She uses paint to deeply connect with places and people in the land she calls home.

As a child, drawing was a way to be an independent observer and thereby express her own silent point of view.

Today, painting has become a way to be an interdependent observer, and use paint to explore a patchwork of elements that all arises together.

It’s a practice that helps her embrace the idea that everything belongs, and to feel moved by the experience.

She hopes this process results in paintings that reverberate as powerfully for you as they do for her.

• From 2005: Her work has been selected for many art awards and exhibitions across the North Shore
• In 2022: ‘Math Tutor’, a portrait of her son, (pictured here) was selected for the Adam Portraiture Award and exhibited at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Wellington
• In 2024: Her self-portrait won a special commendation in ArtEdit’s Self-Represented Artist Award, and appeared in their Magazine #39