The Many Colours of Pittwater

About the Artist

Amanda Tye

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At the core of Tye’s practice is a search for balance, bringing order to chaos through the language of line and shape. Fragmented forms are intuitively reworked and rearranged until a sense of harmony and stillness begins to emerge. Through her practice, her paintings become both emotional landscapes and quiet acts of resolution. “My current practice is about walking for hours in the landscape that pulls my attention. Painting for me is a combination of reliving an experience, desire, energy and bringing order after having pulled it apart to understand it.” – Amanda Tye. Tye grew up in the heart of the bush on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, studied Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales, graduating in 2000. She then went on to complete her Bachelor of Art Education and taught Visual Arts and photography for 15 years, all while practising her painting. In 2017, she left teaching to pursue a full-time career as an artist, and now has a studio surrounded by bushland. Tye has been a finalist in The Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize 2024, National Emerging Art Prize, ACB selects 2023, the Northern Beaches Art Prize 2021, Southern Buoy Landscape Prize 2020, Glover Art Prize 2019, The Fleurieu Art Prize 2018, Mosman Art Prize 2015, and twice winner of the People’s Choice Warringah Art Prize (Northern Beaches Art Prize). She has held solo shows at HAKE House of Art, Art2muse Gallery and Sydney Road Gallery. Tye’s work is held in collections across the world and is often used by interior designers for styling.