Amanda Adam

Amanda Adam is a Scottish Visual Artist living in Fife, she has a Ba (Hons) in Fine Art, an MFA in Art and Humanities, and holds an RSA New Contemporaries Award, her work is predominantly land based. Increasingly concerned with the challenges and problems that human consumption and disposal habits continue to create for nature, the landscape and primarily the planet, she looks at the artists’ responsibility to highlight not only the effect of waste materials but also to recycle rather than use new materials, drawing our awareness to the connection of land, nature, and people that we should treat with more care. Acquiring a roll of agricultural fleece was the start of her interest in biodegradable and non-biodegradable materials.  Her interest in waste materials grew when she spent some time at the Binns Group, Waste Management, Recycling Plant when she began working on a discarded litter catcher in collaboration with artist Susie Johnstone, where woven strips of plastics were woven through the rusty, misshapen mesh in preparation for Earth Day in April 2022. ‘Litter Catcher’ is currently situated at the entrance to the recycling plant in Glenfarg, Scotland. The agricultural material was also used as a body covering, then throwing acrylic paint on to the wearer the material was dried, cut into strips and used for weaving the piece 'Cover up II', with the remaining white, ethereal, fabric used for creating an installation 'Cover up I'.