SHOWCASING OUR ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

AMANDA CORNISH

2025 Artist in residence - in collaboration with the Royal Society of Sculptors

Amanda Cornish is a London-based multi-disciplinary artist who graduated with an MA Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, where she also completed the Graduate Diploma Fine Art Programme. Prior, she studied Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art.

Working across sculpture, installation, drawing, sound, and text, Cornish sees her works as a collaboration with found objects. Her process begins with the spontaneous encounter, where found items from industrial, domestic, or natural environments act not as passive elements but as agents to provoke a creative dialogue. Her work operates at the intersection of spatial theory and material culture, where she explores how we experience and interact with space, investigating ways our physical environments and surrounding materials shape us. Using materials often in a state of decay or flux - old clothing, soap, rust and medical latex - her work is centred around the acceptance of impermanence, imperfection and the transient, to search for the essence of being.

“I’m thrilled to have been awarded the Eilean Shona Residency - a rare an unique opportunity to focus on artistic exploration, embrace the stillness for introspection, and deepen my understanding of both. I’m curious to see how solitude shapes the mind and excited to discover where the unbound exploration will lead my work.”

Amanda Cornish has exhibited in the UK and internationally, with solo exhibitions at Mumford Fine Art (London) and The China Club (Hong Kong). She has been the recipient of several awards, including the Gilbert Bayes Award from The Royal Society of Sculptors, the DRAW19 Monochrome Prize, the NOA Heart of England Award, and the RSMA Charles Pears Award.

Artists in Residence from previous years