Amelia Nadine Forsyth
b.2000
Contemporary Fine Artist
Born in West Bromwich, UK.
Lives and works in Birmingham, UK
Birmingham based artist, Amelia Forsyth had been passionate about art from an early age, she studied art throughout GCSE and A Level, achieving grades, A and A*. She further continued this love for art by going on to study an undergraduate Fine Art degree at The Birmingham School of Art, which she completed in June 2021. She is currently studying at Birmingham City University, working towards completing her PGCE Secondary Art and Design.
Amelia's work comes in various forms, from drawing and painting to sculpture and instillation. She specialises in portraits, pet portraits and large-scale murals. She is also known to create landscape paintings, hand-painted saws and custom work. Her work is often large-scale and striking, with strong use of texture, contrast, tones and colour.
She is fascinated by topics surrounding the body and mental health, her work typically shining a light on stereotypical 'imperfections' and 'flaws'. Her aim is to address and challenge society's expectations and perceptions of normality, perfection and beauty. She explores the question "what makes us who we are?" in various ways throughout her work.
" I use my personal experiences within my art as the basis of everything I do creatively. Exploring how I see my body and its differences- how they are perceived as imperfections by society . Yet I embrace that they are imperfections, they are flawed, and yet they make me who I am."
Amelia is intrigued by the Body Positivity Movement, which empowers people and encourages them to embrace their 'imperfections'. She supports this movement through the medium of art and challenges these so-called 'imperfections', whether that relates to weight, size, features, skin or disability. The main aim of her work is to challenge society about the norms and expectations of beauty, which are plastered all over social media- platforms which can, and should, be used as a more positive tool. The mediums she specialises in is acrylic paint, colour pencil and alginate plaster casting. She also does a lot of commissioned work which usually consists of graphite pencil or colour pencil drawings and acrylic paintings.