Over the past three years Amanda Beddis has developed a consistent and impressive body of self-portraits that encompass childhood and adulthood. Curiously, Beddis’s art reveals a persona that is both public and private in images that draw from the iconography of familiar ‘snapshot’ poses from family albums that are all-too-conscious of such conventions, with the artist often adopting the role of protagonist in a domestic and intimate environment.

Beddis is currently completing a Master of Fine Arts at Whitecliffe College of Art and Design. and has work in a number of private collections, including Christchurch company, Humanware.