WHAT WOULD BOWIE DO? - restocked for Christmas!

NICE ARTS

  • SHOOT THE BREEZE: Carolyn Röhm

    by Amanda Billing
    Shoot The Breeze is an idea I'm taking for a walk, whereby I have conversations with my headshot subjects about the portrait photography experienc...
    Posted in Ageing, beauty, creative business, creativity, headshots, photography, portraits, women

  • PET PHOTOGRAPHY

    by Amanda Billing
    One weekend a few months ago, my friends Lara and Sunny came along to the studio with their dogs. Mea (blonde) and Robbie (black - you can spot h...
    Posted in headshots, love, photography, portraits, studio life

  • The Grace of Ageing

    by Amanda Billing
    Me in 2022 by my friend Katie Fell, with my camera, after some else's headshot shoot. I edited this deliberately to accentuate the contours of my f...
    Posted in Ageing, art, beauty, creativity, force majeure, headshots, menopause, photography, portraits, strongfemalecharacter, women

  • AQUARELLE - a show in seven parts

    by Amanda Billing
    Yours Truly on opening night, with all my ladies. Photo: my BF on my shitty old iPhone 8+. Every artist needs to have an Artist Statement handy. M...
    Posted in art, artistic process, erotic, painting, studio life, women

  • Become a Patron of the Arts.

    by Amanda Billing

    My Patreon will give those of you who appreciate my work, my process, ideas, paintings and photographs, a range of opportunities to support me. You will be able to do so in a regular, very direct way via a monthly subscription to my Page.

    The Patron Programme will evolve as I do and I would love you to come on the journey with me.

    Posted in art, artistic process, creativity, studio life

  • PERSONAL PR

    by Amanda Billing
    I'm in season 2 of Under The Vines on TVNZ and was asked to do participate in Face Time in early February. It took me a week to write my answers because this was a kind of publicity I hadn't done in a long time. The questions matter and I wanted to choose my words carefully but also have some fun. I found the process really enjoyable and, mercifully, they published my words without changing anything major.
    Posted in acting, art, creative business, creativity, friendship, love, photography, studio life, women

  • PIECE WITH ARTIST

    by Amanda Billing
    Piece with Artist is one of my favourite Instagram accounts. It’s part history lesson, part contemporary art mag and is plastered with two of the ...
    Posted in art, artistic process, creative business, creativity, painting, photography, studio life

  • ARTISTIC REPRESENTATION? TICK.

    by Amanda Billing
    When Artfull Director Jess Agoston invited me for coffee and asked if I wanted to be, in her words, an "Artist with a Capital A" by joining the Artfull team, I said Hell yes! Then I was hit with a wave of impostor-syndrome-like doubts that always comes with taking a bigger step than I'm used to into exciting but slightly unfamiliar territory where, crucially, other people might be watching.
    I have a habit of doing this to myself.
    Posted in art, artistic process, creative business, creativity, painting, women

  • ON "MAKING ART THE MAIN THING"

    by Amanda Billing
    This is BIG - I have gallery representation. Still can't quite believe it! I am very proud to have been invited to join the diverse stable of visual artists brought together under the banner of artfull.co.nz.
    Posted in 100 day project, art, artistic process, creative business, creativity, drawing, friendship, women

  • CELESTIAL BODY - a new collection of petite paintings

    by Amanda Billing
     In my studies at Browne School this year, I have tended to make clusters of paintings. The last few months, each painting has been small. They’r...
    Posted in art, artistic process, drawing, painting, women

  • Upper Case Romance

    by Amanda Billing
    "To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower  Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand  And Eternity in an hour..." [From Aug...
    Posted in creative business, creativity, design, friendship, love

  • GOING SOLO! My first ever residency and exhibition...

    by Amanda Billing
      So, my big scary but exciting new is: I'm doing my first ever residency and my first solo exhibition. The residency starts on Monday the 30th of...