Amy Winstanley’s work merges observations and research with intuitive mark-making drawn from personal experience, emotion, and memory. She researches into eco-philosophy, feminist theory, indigenous thought and using the sensorium to experience the world differently—with a focus on our entanglement in, and estrangement from, the more-than-human world. In her process, she oscillates between spontaneous gestures and conscious painterly expressions. She creates space through layers of oil paint and builds shapes and colors that immerse the viewer into a place where there is suggestion of things and an undoing of depiction in a fluid way.

Winstanley is interested in the everyday occurrences of birth, death, joy and sadness and uses paintings to think through personal experiences of love, loss, and her relationship to the other-than-human world. She is fascinated by the act of painting itself—the movement of the hand and paintbrush on canvas—the energy of creating something from nothing.

Amy Winstanley (b. 1983, UK) is an artist based in Glasgow, UK. She received her MA from the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam in 2019 and BA (Hons) in Sculpture from the Edinburgh College of Art in 2005.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Homing, Ginsberg Gallery, Lima, Peru (2024); Soft Spot, A_Place Gallery, Glasgow, UK (2024); Slim Glimpses, Cample Line, Dumfriesshire, UK (2023); Lost Hap, Margot Samel, New York, USA (2023). Recent group exhibitions include: Out of Earth, The Approach, London, UK (2024); Opening, A_Place, Glasgow, UK (2023); Strangers, Rongwrong, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2022); Tangible/Intangible, The Haberdashery, Glasgow, UK (2021); and Potluck, Gallery 17717, Seoul, South Korea, SK (2021). Upcoming exhibitions include a solo at Margot Samel, New York, US in 2025.

In 2014 she carried out a residency with The Bothy Project, Isle of Eigg, UK and was the recipient of Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award in 2018, and The Hope Scott Trust Award in 2014.