Biography
Amanda Faulkner (b. Dorset, UK 1953) attended Bournemouth College of Art (1978–9) and studied printmaking at Ravensbourne College of Art (1979–82) and did a postgruate degre Chelsea School of Art (1982–3). She spent two years in South America, part of a two-person team making anthropological films of the Canai Indians of Ecuador, and also worked there as an illustrator of short books on the mythology of an Amazonian group. Faulkner participated in the group show Young Contemporaries, ICA (1981) and in 1983 she had a solo show at Woodlands Art Gallery. Her work there and works held by Arts Council, bought from Angela Flowers, 1983, were much concerned with women. Plymouth Arts Centre included Faulkner in a three-artist exhibition in 1996.
By then Faulkner had participated in numerous group exhibitions internationally. Her later solo exhibitions included Small Mysteries, Flowers East, 1999, and New Drawings, 2002. For a time she lived in Chatham, Kent.
