Amanda Thomson
Amanda Thomson
- Lecturer
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- Lecturer
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- A.Thomson@gsa.ac.uk
Biography
Amanda Thomson is a visual artist, researcher and writer. She is a part time lecturer at GSA. Dr Thomson completed her undergraduate degree at The Glasgow School of Art and gained an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also has degrees in the social sciences, and previously worked in social research and policy, primarily in the voluntary sector. Her creative practice is ideas and research-led and fuses an arts practice that incorporates traditional and digital printmaking techniques with photography, bookmaking, video and sound works with creative non-fiction. Her work is often about how we are located (and locate ourselves) in the world; space, place and landscape; and explorations of home, nativity, migrations chosen and forced (of people, plants, birds, things), mapping and how places come to be made. She completed an arts practice based, interdisciplinary PhD about the forests of Morayshire and Abernethy Forest in
Latest Additions
- Thomson, Amanda (2025) Activating the Archive. In: Plants on Paper: Encounters with archives, power and possibility. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), Edinburgh. ISBN 9781910877586
- Thomson, Amanda (2025) Passages: A Cultural Trail on the National Cycle Network Route 754: - Auchinstarry to Craigmarloch - Greendykes Shale Bing.
- Thomson, Amanda (2025) What it is to stay. In: There She Goes: New Travel Writing by Women. Saraband Books. ISBN 9781916812093
- Thomson, Amanda (2024) Boundary Layers (Companion Piece).
- Thomson, Amanda (2024) A Not So Silent Archive. Botanics Stories - RBGE Personal & Project Stories.
- Thomson, Amanda (2024) Contributions to "Under the Changing Skies: The Best of the Guardian's Country Diary, 2018-2024". In: Under the Changing Skies. Guardian Faber, London. ISBN 9781783353101
- Thomson, Amanda (2024) walkDrawings. In: Walking (Whitechapel Gallery/ MIT) Documents of Contemporary Art). Documents of Contemporary Art . Whitechapel Gallery/ MIT Press, London/ Cambridge Mass, USA, pp. 133-135. ISBN ISBN 978-0-85488-316-5 (Whitechapel Gallery)
- Thomson, Amanda (2024) Twinflower/ Footnotes/ Preliminary Research. Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, 9 February 2024 - 11 May 2024
- Bird, Nicky, Brind, Susan, Carter, Justin, Evans, Brian, Elkovich, Carol, Greated, Marianne, Harold, Jim, Hooper, Alan, McMullan, Shauna, Mersinis, Michael, Punton, Lesley, Thomson, Amanda and Wall, Gina (2023) Pedagogy of Place - A Field Guide to Reading Landscape for Artists, Architects, & Designers. Intellect Books, Bristol.
- Thomson, Amanda (2023) What I know and don't. Márọkọ, 2. pp. 8-14.
