Amanda Ahmed completed a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (painting) at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University, in 1994; a Bachelor of Letters (Hons) at the Centre of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University, 2003; and a Master of Fine Art by Research at Monash University in 2011. The title of her MFA was Botanical illustration: drawing in the space of nature. She has studied botanical illustration with Dianne Emery and Mali Moir at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, and is presently studying with John Pastoriza-Piñol at the Geelong Botanic Gardens. Amanda co-curated with Mali Moir The Eternal Order In Nature: the science of botanical illustration in 2011 to coincide with the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne. In 2012 she exhibited in Capturing Flora: 300 years of Australian botanical art at the Art Gallery of Ballarat and The Art of Botanical Illustration presented by the Friends of the RBG Melbourne at Domain House Gallery, South Yarra. In 2013 and 2014 she exhibited at Botanica at Lions Gate Lodge, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney.
Catalogue Number 1
Acer japonicum
watercolour
305mm by 255mm
$650
Catalogue Number 2
Acer japonicum
watercolour on vellum
305mm by 255mm
$650
