Biography
Amanda Bright (b. Brighton, UK 1962) studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal College of Art, London (1987). She specialised in patination and in the material properties of metal, particularly ferrous metals. In 1988, as part of the bi-centennial celebrations in Australia, she was invited to Canberra School of Art to represent the UK in a Metalsmith’s masterclass, and ten years later, in the catalogue accompanying the major metalwork exhibition Metalmorphosis at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, (November 1998 to February 1999) was described as "one of the most original and influential metalwork artists of her generation".
Her work has been purchased for a number of national collections in the UK, including the Crafts Council, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, South East Arts Craft Collection, Ulster Museum, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and she has exhibited widely at venues including: the V&A, London; the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; Galerie für Angewandte Kunst, Munich; Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway; Dutch Textile Museum (DTM), Tilburg, The Netherlands. She retired from being Dean of the School of Art and Media, University of Brighton where she had taught since 2016.
