Amy Dury - OBSERVER
AMy dury – OBSERVER
“OBSERVER brings together a collection of disparate faces, gestures and emotions from my past.
Working from old home movies or found imagery, images arise that make me stop in my tracks. Hearing those voices from the past calling greetings, whispering encouragement, shouting warnings and offering insights….they are at once with us again, we exist at the same time, we can see and almost touch them. And when they smile in the bright sunshine, laugh freely with their friends or are seen thoughtful in their tasks, we can see what is in our DNA, what laid our path and what we have lost.”
Amy Dury 2025
PRIVATE VIEW:
Wednesday 16th April 6pm - 8pm
EXHIBITION DATES:
Wednesday 16th April - Sunday 27th April
Venue:
The Regency Town House
13 Brunswick Square,
Brighton and Hove
BN3 1EH
Open every day 11am - 5pm
Please contact the gallery — HERE
to reserve or purchase any of the paintings.
Delivery can be arranged worldwide
THe exhibition
EDUCATION
BA Fine Art (printmaking) - Glasgow School of Art 1997
MA Fine Art - Brighton University 2001
PGCE Art & Design 2002
Solo & group EXHiBITIONS
• 2025 Guest Presenter Sky Arts ‘Artists Masterclasses’
• 2025 Judge for Sussex portrait Artist of the Year
• 2025 Solo Show Cameron Contemporary Art Brighton
• 2025 Solo Show Tambaran 2 Gallery New York •
2024 Solo Show ‘Souvenir’ - Lido Stores Margate
• 2024 Cass Art Prize - Shortlisted
• 2024 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
• 2024 Green and Stone Gallery Open Call
• 2024 Brighton College Commission - seven paintings
• 2024 Group Show Tambaran 2 Gallery, New York
• 2024 Winter Show Stratford Gallery UK
2023 Evidence - solo show at Cameron Contemporary
2023 Royal Society of Portrait Painters , London
2023 Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters , London
2022/3 Society of Scottish Artists 130th Annual Exhibition – Commissioned piece responding to Edvard Munch
2022 October – Sussex Contemporary at the i360 Brighton
2022 November – ING Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries, London
2022 September Figures Group Show Cameron Contemporary, Hove
2022 July - Beep Contemporary, Swansea
2022 August – Oxmarket Contemporary Open – Chichester
2022 July Atelier Brighton Open Call
2022 Trinity Buoy Wharf Gallery , London - Group Show
2022 March ‘Time & Place’ with Jane Campling, Cameron Contemporary, Hove
2021 Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year
2021 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition
2021 Tate Livestream Portrait of Cornelia Parker
2019 Winter Show, Cameron Contemporary Art
2019 Fresh Paint, a 6-person show of new artists at Cameron Contemporary Art
2019 gnt gallery Eastbourne Solo Show
2019 Summer Show at Cameron Contemporary Art
2018 Gallery 31 Brighton Solo Show
2005-2019 Brighton Open Houses May Exhibition, various venues
2003 Artist in Residence Croydon College
1998 Royal West of England Show
Recent notable events include appearing on Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year ’21, and accepted for the 2021 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. In March 2021 she conducted a livestream portrait painting session for the Tate Instagram. She was chosen to respond to Edvard Munch print for Society of Scottish Artists 22/23 Annual Show. In 2024 she exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Show and in early 2025 she was a guest Presenter for two episodes of Sky Arts ‘Artist Masterclasses’. a painter, Amy extracts figures from photographs from the pre-digital age as a starting point.