Amelia Coward

Amelia Coward’s process driven practice balances intuitive experimentation with precise control. Combining soft hand painted ombres of colour with laser sharp cut lines. The works that emerge balance uniformity in pattern with unpredictable, but always harmonious, tonal combinations. “I’m fascinated by how colours interact, alter one another to create visible shifts,” she says. Though static, her chromatic encounters have an undeniable sense of movement; a rhythm and pulse with which they intermingle before your eyes.

Amelia’s artworks are difficult to categorise, borrowing techniques and aesthetics from sculpture, painting, collage and her early training in woven textiles, whilst refusing to conform to the norms of any single category. Many of them, including the one featured on British Airways’ amenity kits, begin as singular sheets of fine birch plywood, painted in gradients of luminous colour. They are then laser-cut into strips, reconfigured and mounted on a substrate. The resulting choreographies of colour are, like all great artworks, far more than the sum of their parts. In the process of cutting, reordering, remixing and assembling Coward reanimates her materials and allows us to experience colour anew.