AMANDA MEARES
Painter
“They are a series of works I did to accompany my father ( psychiatrist Russell Meares ) work on the conversations between Carl Jung and the Mathematician Wolfgang Pauli . Pauli had a series of dreams that these works are about. Through the discussion of his dreams he invented the Quantam theory and received a Nobel prize.”
BIOGRAPHY
Born in London, raised in Melbourne, Amanda attended a diploma of Art at Victoria College Prahran and a Bachelor of Fine Art majoring in Painting at Victoria College Prahran.
Amanda has been in numerous group shows in Melbourne and Sydney and her work is held in private collections in Australia and internationally.
Her paintings were used by the Conservation Council of NSW for their exhibition Industry Vs the Environment, and she has given a talk about her work at the State Library of NSW.
A series of works were recently used by ANZAP conferences in Sydney and in Prato Italy.
Her paintings have been used for the covers of many Australian Album and CD covers as well as numerous Book covers.
She has 3 children and lives and works from her home by a river in Marrickville NSW.
‘’When I was 9 I went to the National Gallery of Victoria with the school where one of my stepmother’s paintings was hanging , I didn’t tell anyone. I thought then and still do. I Want to make Art that directly affects, connects and moves the viewer regardless of age Education or race.
I am a figurative painter interested in the human connection to place and the Universal themes of belonging, alienation, environment and memory. My paintings tell stories and like patchworks piece together real and imagined experiences, often including metaphors and symbols I consciously and unconsciously create poetic visual landscapes .”