Did I mention that I am in total awe of artist that can create amazing pieces with the bare minimum of supplies? well Amanda Nedham’s art is no exception, I fell in love with her imaginative and very graphic body of work the moment I came across her “Like Milk & Blood” series. I have tremendous respect for artists who dedicate endless hours of sweat and labor for their art, and Nedham does just this with her painstaking, labor intensive, masterfully drafted graphite drawings. Her imagery pay homage to classicism but draw inspiration from nature and dreams pushing them into the realm of the surreal.
The visuals are horrific, violent, bloodlust-driven and chaotic – and yet, in keeping with the fragility/rage temperament of the times with a steady pair of cool hands. The demonic and the dainty have rarely been so expertly, unnervingly combined. Innocence and malevolence play tug of war across Nedham’s relentless surfaces, aided by a matching drawing technique that pairs smudges against hard lines; painterly, liquid pools of coal-black graphite against ferocious, knife-edged detailing; the powdery against the etched.
Nedham’s bestiary reminds the viewer of the dual nature of survival, of the fight and the flight in all of us. Like Milk & Blood is a brittle, roaring mirror for difficult times.
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