2025 Artist-in-Residence

Amanda Penrose Hart graduated from Queensland College of Art in 1983 with a Diploma of Fine Art, and attained a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Griffith University in 1991.

Amanda is predominantly a landscape painter. Travelling and working en plein air is intrinsic to her practice; she extrapolates the significance of a place through her work. Dr Andrew Frost suggests she evokes a familiarity with landscapes unseen, by connecting the audiences personal experience with her interpretations of (to date) Australian and European landscapes.

Amanda has featured in numerous selective group exhibitions, often following artist trips or artist-run projects such as Your Friend the Enemy, and Salient (both commemorative exhibitions of the Great War), and River on the Brink: Inside the Murray Darling Basin. She won the Gallipoli Art Prize in 2017 and the Clayton Utz Award in 2019. She has been selected as a finalist in numerous art wards including the NSW Parliament en Plein air, the Portia Geach Memorial Award, the Kedumba Drawing Award, Muswellbrook Art Prize, and the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing.

In April, Amanda Penrose Hart travelled to Arthur Boyd’s Bundanon with PLC Sydney’s Year 11 Visual Arts classes as PLC Sydney’s Artist-in-Residence. In Term 2, she joins the classes again in The Croydon Art Studios as Artist-in-Residence. Riversdale Dreaming, an exhibition showcasing the works created by Amanda and Year 11 Visual art opens at 6. 00 pm Wednesday 28 May and continues 8.30 am - 4.00 pm weekdays until 20 June.