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Amanda Benbow

"Amanda Benbow is a Photographer specialising in black and white traditional photography in a documentary style suitable for daily life. The Artist has a passion for using mixed media and alternative processes to create the work, adding a physicality to the work and a personal touch that can sometimes be lost when using all digital, so quite often prefering anolouge. The style of images prefered by the photographer is voyerism, observing from a distance and documenting the outcomes from whats happening around, and using her own conditions and experiences to influence the work she creates. She has many skills including using the darkroom, preparing chemicles, and working with others on projects and paid commissions including weddings and christenings. However for her future projects she wishes to keep within her voyeristic style when completing projecs like Weddings to give a more natural and less staged look to the work."

This work is about using the abilities as a photographer to document, understand and work through a tough time causing depression to become overwhelming. The focus on depression is usually connected or focussed on the person with it, but this work follows depression as a whole from behind the scenes of someone suffering behind closed doors, to the many faces of the person with it.How they appear to those closest to them and the tasks that they struggle with in day to day life. Using the skills of photography to document the behind the scenes and look into all the difficulties that someone with depression finds on a daily basis, from the simplicity of brushing their teeth to the washing up. Personal hygiene and just not having the energy to deal with the daily tasks that most take for granted. These are taken on mixed media using both Kodak film and digital due to the restrictions of facilities available. Using the project to help me out of the dark places that I found myself and back doing the things that I love.

My portfolio

Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography

Aimee Hankey / Amanda Benbow / Anisha Gohil / Bethany Lovekin / Chelsey Lau / Daniel Rawlinson / Deveton Boakye / Drei Rutherford-Harris / Emily-Jo Frank / Emma Clayton / Erin Rae / Fynn Riseborough / Georgia Elizabeth Adamson / Gianni Thomas / Hannah Ahmed / Hannah Elizabeth James / Jatinder Ghataoa / Jeavan Tagger / John William Dunn / Julia Oleksiak / Kieran Chahal / Luke Baker / Kieran Willetts / Martin Stewart / Monique Bansal / Patrick Campbell-Brookes / Sarah Tombs / Shriya Rai / Victoria Davenport

Degree Show 2021

Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography

Class of '21

Wolverhampton School of Art MA Show 2021

MA Show 2021

Friday 17th September – Sunday 3rd October: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Lichfield St, Wolverhampton WV1 1DU
MA Design and Applied Arts / MA Digital And Visual Communications

Friday 1st – Sunday 31st October: The New Art Gallery Walsall, Gallery Sq, Walsall WS2 8LG
MA Fine Art And / MA Art and Design by Research

it is a great pleasure that we are once again partnering with Wolverhampton Art Gallery and the New Art Gallery Walsall in hosting our MA Degree Shows. 

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British Art Show 9

British Art Show 9, Wolverhampton School of Art, George Wallis Building, University of Wolverhampton

22 January - 10 April 2022

We are delighted to announce that the Wolverhampton School of Art has been selected as one of the venues for the prestigious British Art Show 9! In what is a major boost and sign of recognition for arts and culture in Wolverhampton, we are proud to be hosting this prestigious touring exhibition in January 2022.

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FEINART Lecture Series

The FEINART LECTURE SERIES will discuss the role, impact, and theoretical implications of socially engaged art. This series of public talks is organized by the Innovative Training Network FEINART (The Future of European Independent Art Spaces in a Period of Socially Engaged Art) jointly led by the Universities of Wolverhampton (coordinator), Zeppelin University (direction of the training programme) University Iceland, and University of Edinburgh.

FEINART, Research, Wolverhampton School of Art, George Wallis Building, University of Wolverhampton

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 860306  

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