Amelia lives and works on Ngambri / Ngunnawal land, and now calls Canberra home.

She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Curtin University, WA in 1985 and commenced on a life making art, exhibiting primarily in Fremantle and Perth. In the year 1999 she relocated to Canberra from a life on the farm with her family near the town of Esperance, WA.

She studied Museum Practice and worked for ten years as an Art Handler in the Collections of the Australian War Memorial and the National Portrait Gallery. In 2018 she returned to her own art practice full-time and held her first solo exhibition ‘Shorelines’ at the Strathnairn Art Centre in North Canberra in 2023. She has enjoyed working with fellow artists at the Canberra Art Workshop at M16 Artspace and has been a regular exhibitor at group shows held there.

Daughter of professional artists, she recently found a statement written by her father Ross Morrow to his students in the 1960’s. In it he said “There are some painters who paint without thinking. Then, there are some who think before they paint, and that perhaps is better. But there are others still who paint in order to think.”

Like her father, Amelia thinks of painting as a form of discovery, a way of becoming more acutely conscious. For her, painting creates a reality that is challenging, liberating and rewarding.

The exhibition ‘place where I go’ is a collection of works that explore the emotions Amelia feels when walking through landscapes. The feeling of wind, trees and dappled light moves and inspires her.

By looking through arching branches, lacework canopies, rock scapes, distant landforms and waves, she can play with the spaces between light and dark, the tangible and the negative space.

The surfaces she creates are built up over time, sometimes reusing former work and recycled materials like palette papers, lace and stencils to create layers of depth that show the time, age and journey of her painting.

Opening Night: Saturday 17 May 6pm - 8pm

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