Amanda
Christine Cox - Contemporary Fine Art Painter
CV
RECENT LONDON SHOWS
Route 5 group exhibition - Gallery 47, Great Russell Street, August
2006
Music on Canvas - Performance painting at Trinity College of Music,
July 2006
RECENT INTERNATIONAL
SHOWS
Painting Shakespeare's Words, August 2006 Chicago
Love Across the Ocean, Feb.2006 Chicago
ART AND DESIGN EDUCATION
BA (Hons) Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, University of
the Arts London, 2004 - 2007 (electives in Ceramics)
BTEC Foundation Art and Design, Croydon College, 2003 - 2004
Short courses completed in the arts: Photoshop Skills, Screen
Printing, UAL; Life Drawing, East Surrey College; Portraiture
and Life Painting, Art Academy
ART IN THE COMMUNITY
Mural painting with children at schools in Orpington and Horsham.
Mural painting at East Surrey Hospital, Redhill
PROFESSIONAL ART AND
DESIGN BACKGROUND
Mural painting with art contractors over 5 sites in South East
for restaurant chain
Framer/Sales at gallery in Horley, Surrey
EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND
AND PREVIOUS TRAINING/
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Studio and Location Operations in Television Industry from 1995
- 2003. Work Experience in TV and Hospital Radio 1992-1994.
AVID Media Composer 101, VET, Avid approved course completed April
2002
BBC Health and Safety for Studio Cameramen course attended August
1998
HND in Television Programme Operations. Ravensbourne College of
Design and Communication, Kent: September 1993 to June 1995. Course
included all technical and theoretical aspects of production,
studio practice, editing and post production; using industry standard
audio and video formats and equipment, both analogue and digital.
Also used non-linear edit equipment, notably Lightworks.
BTEC OND in TV and Audio Systems Engineering. Bromley College
of Technology. September 1991 to June 1993. Course involved working
with audio and video equipment in both analytical and operational
disciplines
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
Chartered Institute of Marketing: September 1991.
City & Guilds in Print Journalism: East Surrey College (part
time). January 1996.
Educated to A-Level standard: 3 good passes in English, Computer
Science and Geography. 6 O-Level Passes. 2 CSES. Gained at Baston
School for Girls, Bromley.
OTHER PURSUITS:
As well as painting and associated image-making I like to produce
short films, digital music and write short stories and poems (have
had some work published in the anthology Off The Wall). I enjoy
singing and as well as being a former member of Ladies Barbershop
group (Surrey Harmony) I have taken part in Amateur Operatic/Dramatic
Productions, including Grimm's Tales (Theatre Workshop Coulsdon),
where I also designed some props. I have a bass guitar, which
I keep returning to in hope of actually playing it!
More physical activities include rock climbing, ten-pin bowling,
swimming, horticulture (grow organic fruit, veg and herbs), and
occasional trip to gym. Enthusiastic world traveller: speaks a
little French and German. Classic car owner/driver/restorer.
Experience with me
my world as I try to represent it..
and then leave it behind
or live with it
the choice is yours.