Amanda Tye studied Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales majoring in sculpture and then completed a Bachelor of Art Education. She went on to teach Visual Arts and photography for 15 years, all while practising her painting. In 2017, she left teaching to pursue a full-time career as an artist, and now has a studio surrounded by bushland of the Northern Beaches of Sydney.

Tye depicts an emotional yet fragmented response to her surroundings. Her practice swings between responding to the world as she experiences it and a creative process that happens outside her conscious awareness. A juxtaposition develops in the artworks, amplified through her engagement with city life and nature, especially one poised between the ocean and bush.

Tye has been a finalist in many prizes including the Northern Beaches Environment Art Prize 2024 & 2021, National Emerging Arts Prize ACB Selects 2022, Southern Buoy Landscape Prize 2020, Glover Art Prize 2019, The Fleurieu Art Prize 2018, Mosman Art Prize 2015, and twice winner of the People’s Choice Warringah Art Prize 2010 &2015 (Northern Beaches Art Prize).

“Painting for me is about freedom and an authentic language; fuelled by music and nature’s frequency, it is an obsession, a habit, returning each day to do better, to be better… striving to create that something I haven’t yet, something more…. but without time spent in the landscape and experiences inspired by the magic of the natural world, there wouldn’t be anything to create”  ~Amanda Tye

Exhibition Statement

This body of work is an exploration of Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, where nature and architecture intersect. In contrast to the open expanses of the Northern Beaches, I was drawn in… to the cliffs and coves, the tension between softness and structure, and reflect on how it feels both familiar and distinctly different. I aim to distil the atmosphere and energy of place, where light, form, and composition shape my experience.

Education

2002 Bachelor of Art Education: College of Fine Arts, UNSW

2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts: College of Fine Arts, UNSW

Solo /Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Solo Natures Frequency Hake House of Art NSW

2024 Solo Authentic Perspective Hake House of Art NSW

2023 Solo Permanent Vacation Hake House of Art NSW

2022 Group Christmas exhibition A K Bellinger Gallery Inverall NSW

2022 Solo Pink Antidote, Sydney Road Gallery NSW

2022 Gallery Opening Group Show HAKE Gallery, NSW

2022 Bold Landscapes Group Show The Corner Store Gallery NSW

2021 Solo Still water runs deep. Sydney Road Gallery NSW

2021 Opening of new Mt Eliza Gallery Manyung Gallery VIC

2020 Solo A Coast line and Between, Thienny Lee Gallery NSW

2022 -17 Group exhibitions Sydney Road Gallery NSW

2019 Group Exhibition Home, Manly Art Gallery and Museum NSW

2019 Solo Beyond the Edge Exhibition, Sydney Road Gallery NSW

2018 Solo Ocean Water Shore: Art Gallery on Darling Balmain NSW

2018 Duo The View of Two, Sydney Road Gallery NSW

2017 Solo The Colour Trap Gallery Avalon NSW

2017 Group Exhibition Land, Manly Art Gallery and Museum NSW

2016 Natural to Abstraction, Creative Space NSW

2014 Soul Works Exhibition, Creative Space NSW

2008 Solo Angel Café NSW

2000 Home UNSW COFA Gallery Sydney

Prizes / Curated Exhibitions

2024 Finalist Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize Manly Art Gallery & Museum

2023 The Other Art Fair Sydney

2022 Finalist National Emerging Arts Prize ACB Selects Online

2021 Finalist Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize Manly Art Gallery & Museum

2021 Finalist Mini Series Art Prize The Corner Store Gallery NSW

2020 Finalist Southern Bouy Landscape Prize VIC

2019 Finalist Glover Prize TAS

2019 The Other Art Fair Sydney

2018 Finalist Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize: Stump Hill Gallery SA

2017 Finalist Warringah Art Prize (aka Northern Beaches Art Prize) NSW

2015 Winner Peoples Choice Award Warringah Art Prize General Category

2012 Finalist Warringah Art Prize (aka Northern Beaches Art Prize) NSW

2011 Finalist Mosman Art Prize NSW

2010 Winner Peoples Choice Award Warringah Art Prize General Category

Publications & Experience

2024 Home Beautiful magazine, featured in “Bringing art home”

2022 Beaches Covered Magazine, feature article “Paint your own story”

2020 Art Almanac, feature article “A Coastline and In between”

2017-2021 Founding Member of Sydney Road Gallery

2021 Podcast interview ART WANK

2019 3 day Artist workshop with Idris Murphy

2019 Guest Speaker at Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sustaining a creative Career

2018 2 day artist workshop with Luke Sciberras

2002-2015 Visual Arts & Photography Digital Media Secondary School Teacher, Manly Selective Campus

Collections

Australian Government Department of Transport

Private Collections in Australia and Overseas