I am a moving image practitioner, born in Ireland based between London and Belfast with a research based practice. My film works are composed of a combination of observational documentary techniques, staged scenarios and combined with modes of investigative storytelling. I am interested in material histories related to ecological or geological subject matter. These interests extend to the politics of land use, mineralogy, ecological extraction and speculative or hidden histories embedded within landscapes or within extracted matter. Increasingly, my interests in ecological matter have started to become framed around the power relations between technology and science, and their ability to ‘accurately’ quantify aspects of the natural world. This extends to how knowledge is constructed, as well as ideas around truth and authenticity.
Education
2016-2018: Master of Fine Arts, UCL Slade School of Art, London (Distinction)
2004-2008: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Crawford College of Art and Design, MTU, Cork (Distinction)
2006: Socrates Exchange Program: North Karelian Polytechnic of Art, Joensuu, Finland
Current, Upcoming Shows & Commitments
2025 Guest Lecture, Experimental Film Module, Trinity College Dublin (April)
2025 ‘From Sunlight to Extinction, 4th Ward Project Space, curated by Noelle Collins, with Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Chicago (April, Solo)
2025 ‘VdR-Film Market 2025’, Visons Du Reel, 2025, Online (April)
On-Going Research Group: Squishy Sessions, curated by Becky Lyon (Elastic Fiction)
Selected Solo and Two Person Shows:
2023 The Flesh of Language, (Solo) SIRIUS, Cobh, Ireland (& in Conversation with Michele Horrigan)
2021 ‘Material and Immaterial Worlds’, (Solo) curated by Miguel Amado, the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
2020 ‘No One Can Ever Embargo the Sun’ curated by Edel O’ Reilly, M8 Space, Aalto University, Finland
2018 ‘Death in Geological Time’, Platform Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2015 ‘Notes on the (Microscopical) Character of Krakatoa’ , Trinity College Dublin and Offaly County Council, Ireland
2015 ‘Situated’ with Noelle Gallagher, as part of the EIARA award, 126 Gallery, Galway, Ireland
2015 ‘Site Where a Future Never Took Place’, curated by Paul Mc Aree, Ballina Arts Centre, Ireland
2013 ‘The Artificial Infinite’, curated by Alexandra Hennig, Kunstraumarcade, Mödling-Vienna, Austria
Selected Group Shows and Screenings:
2024 ‘Spirit Messages’, aemi 2024 touring programme, CAST Cornwall
2024 SET Film Festival, SET Peckham, London
2024 Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York
2024 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, video library
2024 DATA.BASE: MEMORY, LOSS, BASE and Fire Station Artist Studios, Dublin
2024 BFI LFF Experimenta , Right in the Substance of Them a Trace of What Happened, ICA, London
2024 ‘Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria, BC, Canada
2024 ‘Spirit Messages’, aemi 2024 touring programme, FilmForm, Sweden
2024 Spirit Messages’, aemi 2024 touring programme, Worm, Rotterdam
2024 ‘Spirit Messages’, aemi 2024 touring programme, Shankhill Screen, Belfast
2024 ‘Spirit Messages’, aemi 2024 touring programme, Marienbad film festival, Czech Republic
2024. ADAF 2024 "TECHNO(S)CENE", Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece
2024 ‘WITH’, Askeaton Contemporary Arts at Publics, Helsinki, Finland
2024 ‘Spirit Messages’, aemi 2024 touring programme, the Irish Film Institute, Dublin, the Model, Sligo, Starling, Limerick
2023 Media Geologies: Media Ecologies, (Screening) Winchester School of Art, programmed by Georgia Perkins & Hayato Takahashi
2023 ‘aemi @ CIFF: Spirit Messages’, Cork International Film Festival, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork (Screening)
2023 ‘Soft Tissue: Feeling-through Precarious Times’, Metroland Cultures Gallery, London
2023. Glossaries for Forwardness (Screening) with Ben Rivers & Eco Showboat, Trinity College Dublin.
2023 Welcome to the Neighbourhood (Screening) Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Limerick, Ireland
2023. ‘The Sun Gives Without Asking’, (Screening) curated by Sean Lynch, Irish Film Institute & AEMI, Ireland
2022 ‘Ecstasy All Their Own’, curated by Kak collective, CCA Glasgow, UK
2022 ‘Intelligence De-biased’, curated by Sasha Burkhanova, Exposed Art Projects, London, UK
2021 We Used to Kiss All Night curated by Eoin Dara (Screening) as part of TULCA, ‘There’s Nothing Here but Flesh and Bone, There’s Nothing
More’, Galway, Ireland.
2021 Zukunftsvisionen Festival 2021, Juried Show, Görlitz, Germany
2021 ‘Woman in the Machine’, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Ireland
2021 ‘Home: Being and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland’, curated by Chris Clarke and Fiona Kearney, the Glucksman, Cork
2020 ‘Material legacies’, (Screening) Docs Ireland Film Festival, curated by AEMI, On-line
2020 ‘On Ancient Earth’, The Artist Expedition Society x Lumen London’, off site project, Central Australia
2020 ‘Home from Home’, On-Line initiative, curated by Chris Clarke and Fiona Kearney, the Glucksman, Cork, Ireland.
2020 ‘Going Away.Tv - Live: The Retreat’, selected by Marc Blazel and Alexander Harding, Arebyte Gallery, London
2019 ‘Going Away.Tv’, selected by Marc Blazel and Alexander Harding, The Wrong Biennale, online @ goingaway.tv
2019 ‘Field Study’, curated by Liam Slevin, The Axillary Project Space, Middlesbrough, UK.
2019 ‘6 X 6 Project’, Artist run on-line platform
2019 ‘Dearly Beloved, Artworks 2019’, curated by Emma Lucy O’Brien and Dennis McNulty, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Ireland.
2019 ‘6 Characters in Search for a Host’, curated by Mollie Anna King & Sean Gwee, AA School of Architecture, London
2019 ‘Open Film’, Selected by Stuart Whipps, Outpost Gallery, Norwich, UK
2018 ‘Slade MA Degree Show’, UCL, London, UK
2018 ‘First Blast’, SET Space, Bermondsey, London, UK
2018 ‘Small Press Project’, Slade Research Centre, London, UK
2018 ‘Drip Dry’, Charlton Gallery, London, UK
2018 ‘Slade Interim Show’, UCL, London, UK
2017 ‘The Composition Has Been Reversed’, University College London Art Museum, UK
2017 ‘MEMEMEMEME’, curated by Yarli Alison, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
2017 ‘On Primrose Hill’, group show, Primrose Hill, London, UK
2016 ‘Still the Barbarians’, Eva International Biennial, curated by Koyo Kouoh, Limerick, Ireland
2016 ‘Carnage Visors’, curated by Paul Mc Aree, Rua Red, Dublin, Ireland
2016 ‘Doremi’, Florence Arts Center, Cumbria
2015 ‘Under the Radar’, curated by Michele Horrigan, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, UK
2014 ‘Perception’, Utopia School Project, Flux Factory, New York
2014 ‘Restless’, curated by Paul McAree, 126 Gallery, Galway, Ireland
2014 ‘Welcome to the Neighbourhood’, Curated by Michele Horrigan, Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Ireland
2014 ‘International Contemporary Art Symposium’, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany
2014 ‘Translucent Flag’, curated by James L. Hayes, MART, Dublin, Ireland
2013 ‘NLA IV’, Irish Museum of Contemporary Art (IMOCA), Dublin, Ireland
2012 ‘Watching the River Flow’, Curated by Sean Walsh, Centro de Artes, Coimbra, Portugal
2012 ‘Claremorris Open 2012’, Curated by Mike Collier (ICA), Ireland
2012 ‘Cutting a Door’, Curated by Robert O’ Connor, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China
2012 ‘Now that’s what I call Praxis’, curated by Noelle Collins, Occupy Space, Limerick, Ireland
2011 ‘CUBEOpen’, CUBEGallery, Manchester, UK
2011 ‘A Conversation Amongst End Points’, The Don Gallery, Shanghai, China
2010 ‘Backwater Twenty 10’, Curated by Stephen Brandes and Vera Ryan, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Selected Awards
2023. Visual Arts Bursary: Arts Council of Ireland
2022. Visual Arts Agility Award: Arts Council of Ireland
2021 Visual Arts Bursary: Arts Council of Ireland
2021 Project Award: Arts Council of Ireland
2019 Next Generation Bursary, awarded by the Arts Council of Ireland
2019 Éigse-Hotron Graduate Prize, awarded by VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Ireland
2018 Edward Allington Memorial Prize, awarded by UCL Slade
2018 Shortlisted: Almacantar Studio Award, UCL, Slade
2018 Shortlisted: Sarabande Scholarship
2017 /14 Project Award: Arts Council of Ireland
2014 Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Funding
2014/12/11 Visual Arts: Travel and Training Award
2013/11 Culture Ireland Award
2011 Cork City Council Twinning Award
Residencies & Commissions
2022 Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Next Generation Award Residency, Annaghmakerrig, Co. Monaghan, Northern Ireland
2017 UCL Art Museum Residency Award, awarded by Slade School of Art, UCL, London
2015 Trinity College Dublin, Geology Department, in association with the Arts Council of Ireland
2014 Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Invited Artist, Askeaton, Limerick
2014 FIND Public Art Commission, awarded by Gaynor Seville and Mayo Co. Council, Ireland
2013 AIR-Krems Residency with Stipend from AIR Krems, Austria
2013 Rondo Studios, Scholarship awarded by the Province Styria, Graz, Austria
2011 BIAP Platform China, Beijing, China
Selected Press:
2021 Spotlight Interview: Amanda Rice, The Arts Council of Ireland, April 2021
2021 ‘Little-Interview: Amanda Rice’, The Glucksman , March 2021
2019 ‘Field Study’, Review by Annie O Donnell, Corridor8, September 2019
2016 ‘Eva International 2016’, Review by Gemma Tipton, FRIEZE magazine Issue 180, June 2016
2016 ‘Still the Barbarians’, Eva International, Exhibition Catalogue Text
2016 ‘A. C. A Public’, Askeaton Contemporary Arts Collected Volume, essay by Curt Riegelnegg
2016 ‘EVA 2016: Still (the) Barbarians’, Rebecca O Dwyer, On-Line, Review
2015 ‘Round Up, June/July, Art Monthly’, Issue 388, Review by Joanne Laws
2014 ‘Welcome To The Neighbourhood: The Politics Of Context’, Article by Orlaith Treacy,
2014 ‘Askeaton Contemporary Arts: Welcome to the Neighbourhood 2014’, Article by Orlaith Treacy,
2014 ‘To Seek and Find Support’, [Occupy Paper] Issue 9, Article by Joanna Hopkins
2014 ‘Wine Soak No. 16 “Mind the Gap”, Art in the Contemporary World’, Review, by Jennie Taylor
2014 ‘Finders/Keepers’, the Visual Artists Newsheet, May-June 2014, Review by Gianna Tomasso
Selected Lectures / Talks
2018 Residencies: Time, Space & New Environments": Panel discussion with Ingibjörg Gunnlaugsdóttir, Janice Hough, Mark Clare at Irish
Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) Dublin
2015 Visiting Lecturer and BFA Studio Tutor, Burren College of Art and Design, Ireland
2015/17 Visiting Lecturer, Professional Practice, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork,
2013 Visiting Lecturer: Professional Practice, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Selected Writing
2014 Welcome to the Neighbourhood 2014, COLLECTED, Essay by Amanda Rice
2013 This is Pseudo Nature, The Visual Artists News Sheet, June-July Edition, article by Amanda Rice
Djing & Radio
SET Social DJ, Peckham, London (2022 - present)
The Dregs of Disco on NRBC.io New River Broadcasting Corporation, London (2022-23)
No Bounds Radio - Archived
MONIKER, the Infirmary, Cork (2009-2010)
Public Collections:
Arts Council of Ireland Permanent collection
Friedmann-Architektur, Mannheim, Germany
Neustadt an der Weinstrasse City Council, Permanent Collection, Germany
Cork City Council, Permanent Collection, Ireland
Munster Technological University, Permanent Collection, Ireland
Links
Amanda Rice is generously supported by the Arts Council of Ireland
