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Amanda Farr
Amanda Farr has worked professionally in galleries since 1990, starting as a Trainee Curator at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester; Assistant Keeper, Temporary Exhibitions, City Art Centre, Edinburgh 1992-96, where she worked on major national and international shows of both historic and contemporary art. Here she curated and co-curated high profile contemporary exhibitions, including Intimate Lives: Photographers and their Families, with Sally Mann, Nan Goldin, Anne Testut and Maud Sulter; On the Face of it, which included Gregory Crewdson and Gordon Matta Clark; The Borrowed Image, which included Marcus Coates, David Godbold and David Mabb.
In 1998 she was appointed Director of Oriel 31 (now Oriel Davies) Newtown, Powys and has seen the gallery through a major £1.7 million refurbishment and redevelopment programme.
Since moving to Wales, artists she has worked with include: Dalziel + Scullion, David Nash, Marion Kalmus, Patricia MacKinnon-Day, Fred Langford Edwards, Iwan Bala, Philippa Lawrence, Grzegorz Sztwiertnia, David Hastie, Tim Davies, Yvonne Buchheim, Grennan & Sperandio, Awst & Walther, Jennie Savage, Bedwyr Williams, Peter Finnemore, Craig Wood and Helen Sear. Exhibitions curated in recent years include: Folk Art & Fairy Tales (2006) with 10 artist/makers including Lowri Davies, Julie Arkell and Su Blackwell; Things which are … six artists from Poland (2007); Paul Granjon in Oriel Factory (2011) and A place in the country: six artists from Denmark (2011-12). She initiated and led on the Gallery’s Young Curators scheme and in 2012 was invited to speak on this project in Holland.
She has been selector for Opens at Oriel Wrecsam, Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, ArtSway, Hampshire, Oriel Davies Open 2012. In 2013 she was on the Selection Panel for the National Eisteddfod of Wales Visual Arts Exhibition. She has acted as advisor for Visual Arts Progamming for Theatr Mwldan since 2012/13.
She was co-curator for Cymru yn Fenis Wales in Venice 2013, working with Alfredo Crameroti, Director, MOSTYN to present Bedwyr Williams at the Venice Biennale of Art 2013, in 2014 she was invited to nominate the artist for the Wakelin Award, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. In 2015 she was invited to be a selector for the 2015 Hereford Craft Fair, and to be a judge for the prestigious Artes Mundi Award 6.
Member of ENGAGE and Secretary of VAGW (Visual Arts Group Wales)
Amanda Farr
Biography
Amanda Farr has worked professionally in galleries since 1990, starting as a Trainee Curator at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester; Assistant Keeper, Temporary Exhibitions, City Art Centre, Edinburgh 1992-96, where she worked on major national and international shows of both historic and contemporary art. Here she curated and co-curated high profile contemporary exhibitions, including Intimate Lives: Photographers and their Families, with Sally Mann, Nan Goldin, Anne Testut and Maud Sulter; On the Face of it, which included Gregory Crewdson and Gordon Matta Clark; The Borrowed Image, which included Marcus Coates, David Godbold and David Mabb.
In 1998 she was appointed Director of Oriel 31 (now Oriel Davies) Newtown, Powys and has seen the gallery through a major £1.7 million refurbishment and redevelopment programme.
Since moving to Wales, artists she has worked with include: Dalziel + Scullion, David Nash, Marion Kalmus, Patricia MacKinnon-Day, Fred Langford Edwards, Iwan Bala, Philippa Lawrence, Grzegorz Sztwiertnia, David Hastie, Tim Davies, Yvonne Buchheim, Grennan & Sperandio, Awst & Walther, Jennie Savage, Bedwyr Williams, Peter Finnemore, Craig Wood and Helen Sear. Exhibitions curated in recent years include: Folk Art & Fairy Tales (2006) with 10 artist/makers including Lowri Davies, Julie Arkell and Su Blackwell; Things which are … six artists from Poland (2007); Paul Granjon in Oriel Factory (2011) and A place in the country: six artists from Denmark (2011-12). She initiated and led on the Gallery’s Young Curators scheme and in 2012 was invited to speak on this project in Holland.
She has been selector for Opens at Oriel Wrecsam, Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, ArtSway, Hampshire, Oriel Davies Open 2012. In 2013 she was on the Selection Panel for the National Eisteddfod of Wales Visual Arts Exhibition. She has acted as advisor for Visual Arts Progamming for Theatr Mwldan since 2012/13.
She was co-curator for Cymru yn Fenis Wales in Venice 2013, working with Alfredo Crameroti, Director, MOSTYN to present Bedwyr Williams at the Venice Biennale of Art 2013, in 2014 she was invited to nominate the artist for the Wakelin Award, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. In 2015 she was invited to be a selector for the 2015 Hereford Craft Fair, and to be a judge for the prestigious Artes Mundi Award 6.
Member of ENGAGE and Secretary of VAGW (Visual Arts Group Wales)
