Amelia Eldridge is a multi disciplinary artist and public librarian, born in the late summer of 1989 in Towson, Maryland, USA. She received her BA in Fine Arts from Flagler College in 2011, and returned to earn her BFA in 2013. Amelia has lived by the sea in South Florida; St. Augustine, Florida; and Brooklyn, New York; and in the blue mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. Currently she lives in the woods by a stream north of Baltimore with her cat familiar. Her work has been published and exhibited nationally. In February of 2020 she was an artist-in-residence at Createspace Wales, where she again made art by the sea. This experience led her to present on the mythology of Wales, and incorporate this history into her work. She sells her naturally dyed handmade items under the name The Naiad’s Room.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“...suddenly, it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.." - Shekure, My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Through the isolation of specific body parts, lines, and shapes I explore the structure of the human form. The body serving as an archive of experiences of space and the passage of time. The work has become enmeshed with my meditations on the cycle of the seasons, and the textures and spirits of the natural world. Through the act of physically engaging with my materials, I descend back to this sensual world I inhabit. Techniques, crafts, stories, and ways of old that are still in existence today, inform my contemporary art practice.
CONTACT
Find me on Instagram @ameliae26. Feel free to email me about opportunities or to say hello at amelia.eldridge89@gmail.com. Diolch/Thank You.
