Amanda Seibaek Torp-Pederson (she/her)

I am Amanda Seibæk and I am a painter and printmaker. My practice centres on themes inspired by scientific explanations of natural phenomena. This I use as a tool to describe turmoil in contemporary life though a more poetic lens. The theme can be used as a force to ask questions, to stretch facts into fiction, and to visualize inner emotions. I am inspired by Maggie Nelsons auto-theoretical works, connecting multiple fields of knowledge, never deeming any irrelevant for her explorations. Materially, I connect the mediums of painting and print. I see colours in layers and actually utilise colour to shape my figures. When connecting print and paint I try to develop a language where print is ‘not locked’, but rather freed by the brush as a playful tool to make sense of something intuitive. My images exist in 3 mediums; digital, paint and print, and the mediums inspire each other. The screen itself, has a reflectiveness that inspires the choice of canvas and the layers in print. The imprint of the prints on the canvas orchestrates the compositions on the final painting which I complete or obstruct with my brush. Through this material investigation, I analyse the close relationship between emotion and motion to create images which provoke a response in my spectators.