Amanda Hancock is a visual artist and printmaker, researching and cross-purposing printmaking techniques as a means of describing real and imagined narratives.

Her images are evoked by finding an incongruous object, an unintentional pattern or an intriguing scenario. It is through further interrogation, drawing, making, writing and photography that the narratives evolve – but, it’s through a combination of print processes that the stories unfold.

A discarded ball of blue wool unravelling in the street, prompted a journey that culminated in an installation of textured etchings and collagraphs based on paving stones, grids and gutters, each print having a corresponding blue-thread trace collage. Amanda’s current research is based on coming across jars of many shapes and sizes, each containing mysterious preserves, which has in turn led to her discovering an affinity with lithography and a more autographic response.

Developing long-term projects allows her work to ebb and flow, the fusion of technique and ideas resulting in images that relate to one another irrespective of process, some being one-offs or variable prints whilst others may be printed as a limited edition.