Amanda Rice is an artist based between Belfast and London, working primarily with moving image and sound. Her practice explores material histories connected to ecological and geological subjects, extending into the politics of land use, mineralogy, and the speculative or obscured histories embedded within landscapes and extracted matter.
ARTIST BIO
Amanda Rice’s films have been presented at the BFI London Film Festival (UK), Aesthetica Short Film Festival (UK), Science New Wave Festival XVII, New York (US),EVA International Biennial (Ireland), Flux Factory (New York), Eastlink Gallery (Shanghai), CCA Glasgow, Arebyte Gallery (London), M8 Space at Aalto University (Helsinki), the Irish Film Institute (Dublin), the Wrong Biennale, and in aemi’s 2024 international touring film programme Spirit Messages. Her awards include the Edward Allington Memorial Prize from UCL Slade and the Next Generation Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. She is an MA graduate of the Slade School of Art, and her film The Flesh of Language is held in the permanent collection of the Arts Council of Ireland.
Above: Dead Lines, Amanda Rice, 2025, Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, 420 x 594 mm
Top left: 6 ‘No One Can Ever Embargo the Sun’, Amanda Rice, HD Video, (SET Film Festival, 2024)
‘The Flesh of Language, Amanda Rice, HD Video, 19 minutes, Installation Image, SIRIUS Art Centre, Cobh, Cork, Ireland, Solo show curated by Miguel Amado
Still from No One Can Ever Embargo the Sun, Amanda Rice, 2020/2021 HD Video with Sound, duration 20 mins 29 secs
‘Magical Body’, Radio Play, Amanda Rice collaboration with Jo Pester, Duration 24mins 30 (2022)
Increasingly, her focus on ecological materials has become framed through the power relations between technology and science, particularly their attempts to ‘accurately’ quantify aspects of the natural world.
Energy is Forever, Amanda Rice, 2025, Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, 420 x 594 mm
