About P A Amos
Artist's Statement
I'm interested in my own mark-making...in it's ability to express, suggest and describe.
This exquisite personal manipulation is forever revealing to me and offers a complex channel for communicating my ideas, emotions and spontaneous tachism.
Education;
2004
PhD- Dartington College of Arts; April 2004
Title of thesis: Self (ish) Fusion Thinking and Practice a (mainly) Visual Investigation of Poly-modal Art-Making.
Supervised by Prof. Edward Cowie/ Peter Randall Page.
2000
Master of Arts, Visual Performance and Time Based Media, Dartington College of Arts
1986
B.A. (Hon.) Design for Communication Media - Manchester Metropolitan University
1983
Foundation Art College at Liverpool Polytechnic
2005
Exhibition ;The Great Barn Gallery, Ashton, Exeter.
Performance and works with Josep Vallribera & Tony Moore
La Pobla de Benifassa, Spain;
Collaborative work and edition for H. Jenninger Editions.
Exhibition of work from ‘Opera Paese-Rome’ – Home House,
Portman Square, London.
Henning & Amos; Exhibition of collaborative works with Henning Hegland; Home House, Portman Square, London.
2004;
Exhibition of work from ‘Opera Paese-Rome’ , The Great Barn Gallery, Ashton, Exeter.
Canvas/sonic/action; performance with John Richards at Dartington International Summer School.
Henning & Amos; Action/Exhibition; collaborative work with Henning Hegland, Battersea House Studios, London.
2003
Opera Paese Gallery - Rome; exhibition/24 hour performance, action & interaction; collaboration, exhibition with Tony Moore and Jeff Cloke.
68 Elf Gallery, Exhibition; Cologne, The Air of Virgins and Philistines; action/install - action and exhibition with Chris Sacker.
Gablesyard Gallery; Sound and Vision; installation piece. Action/Interaction; performance with Tony Moore, Norwich, Norfolk.
2002
Work; visual and sonic performances; with Tony Moore, Jeff Cloke, Mike McInerney
Work, visual and sonic performances Altarpiece - Performance, Belfast, Fix02. performance festival.
God - Studio performance with Tony Moore, Pete McPhail, Scotland.
Castle - performance, with Pete McPhail Chris Sacker (exhibited in Cologne gallery).
Love Letters - Performance with Chris Sacker, Tony Moore, Pete McPhail, Trigony Studio
Sonic live -video & live performance with Jeff Cloke and Sam Richards.
Damaged Dorothy- Performed composition. Strange Noise Music Festival, Totnes.
Seven minutes to Die In. Composed & performed; action/performance, Totnes.
2001
My flesh, My canvas. Performance. Dartington Gallery.
Self Made. Performance. Dartington.
The Unknown Self. Self flesh self. Performance/short film. Hong Kong. No Self. Performance. Thailand.
Basho; my land my field; Performance /installation. Dartington.
Exit & Spontaneity. Performance festival circumstantially via Helsinki.
2000
Performances/ actions/ Video Installation;
Live & Kicking. Performance. Dartington.
Breathing Whole - 2. performance & video installation.
Contexture festival Dartington.
I had a Dream last night and it Looked Nothing like a Dream.
Video installation, Dartington.
Ashes. Video and sound installation for sound ecology conference Dartington.
Be is for Being. Performance. Dartington.
Cube. Performance. Dartington.
Graduals. Photographic exhibition. Dartington
Compassion for Seen insecurities. A multiplex installation.
The Nature of Illusion - in Real Life. Text, video, performance.
Animal Party. Video & sound Installation.
Red in Tooth & Claw. Video Installation. Dartington.
Voyeur. Performed/written/directed/edited short film-
shown in Liverpool Film Festival 2001.
Say What you Think, Performed/written/directed/edited short film- shown in Liverpool Film Festival Sleeping Baby.
Series of installations, Bantham beach, Devon.
Deep Sleep.(1); Sleepers.(2); Slow Dreams (3);. Installation, Bantham beach, Devon.
Deep Sleep (4) - the movie; Video installation. Dartington Gallery
1998-1999 Video / Installation Artist - Art Director. United Kingdom; multi-media installations.
1997 Founding Member Salva Theatre Company United Kingdom. Production/ performing/ touring. Theatre tours; major national theatres and companies UK.
Director –video documentary of Vietnam.
Art Director, award winning short film, Royal College of Art.
Acting/performance - theatre/television - United Kingdom 1989-1998.
Prior to 1988. Illustrator; painter.
Recordings Amos Project; C.D. recorded with Tony Moore, Jeff Cloke; Contemporary Art Productions.
