A selection of recent work by artist Amy Dury. Dury studied BA Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art and received her Master’s in Fine Art at University of Brighton in 2002. She works in oil and acrylic paint, alongside drawing and mixed media. As a painter, her process involves extracting figures from photographs from the “pre-digital age.” These are primarily found family photos or home movies, stopped instinctively on frames that resonate. Dury is most often drawn to themes related to people’s roles in society, hierarchies and dynamics of power. Drawing on her background as a printmaker, Dury’s work involves layers and structure while loose and textured painterly marks exist alongside more precise detail.
“Looking back into our recent past is an act of remembering and nostalgic mis-remembering, with photographs and film becoming the vehicle which constructs stories about ourselves. Figures are often rewritten or falling from clear view, and I use digital processes to reconstruct the scenes and suggest colour themes. Our history instructs, seduces and tethers us, and I look to use paint to examine these emotive memories which reflect current themes and tensions in contemporary life.”
