Amanda White (Toronto, ON) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Toronto, ON. Her current work focuses on relationships between species, urban ecology, and most recently people and plants. Her projects are often collaborative, and have included web based, community-based work, theatre production, and traditional gallery installations. Amanda is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. She received an MFA from the University of Windsor in 2012, and a BFA in drawing and painting from OCAD.
NS Residency: June 2014
Over the past several years, Amanda’s artistic work and research has focused on issues in ecology. She is interested in the relationship between people and their environments, specifically the ecological relationships and exchanges that occur in urban or human spaces.
Amanda’s recent work includes several projects that look at plants in this context, and food plants specifically. With the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, she is developing several projects that investigate human relationships with plants, and how we communicate with them. She has also been incorporating food processing techniques such as canning, pickling and fermenting into this work.
