Amanda Berridge is a textile artist living and working in Hampshire. She recently graduated from Chichester University and was nominated for the Platform Award exhibition at Aspex Gallery. Amanda’s work usually starts with reused household fabrics which she colours with dye and marks using found objects, looking for meaning in the accidental process-led marks. She hand stitches to add texture and to connect layers.

Amanda loves the metaphors implicit in domestic fabrics and sewing. From "women’s work" to the comfort of home, rituals of birth and death, damage and repair, our textiles often embody our cultural history, our allegiances, including battle standards and banners. She also takes interest in artists who undermine those instinctive readings like Annette Messager, Mona Hatoum and Cornelia Parker. Textiles can draw the audience in through their familiarity and associations and then deliver a message of protest or anguish.