Amanda Ahmed

Amanda Ahmed completed a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (painting) at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University, in 1994.  Upon graduating, she was a sessional lecturer at VCA in the painting and drawing departments for two years.  In 2003 she completed her Bachelor of Letters (Hons) at the Centre of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University.  It was during this time she became interested in botanical illustration and began attending classes at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne.   In 2011 Amanda completed her Master of Fine Art by Research at Monash University. 

Since then, Amanda has worked on projects such as The Eternal Order In Nature: the science of botanical illustration which coincided with the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne, and has been a regular exhibitor at The Art of Botanical Illustration in Melbourne and Botanica in Sydney.  Other notable exhibitions have been Capturing Flora: 300 years of Australian botanical art and Vignettes both at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, also the Flora of Australia: A Botanical Art Worldwide Exhibition 2018 presented by BASA in Canberra in 2018.

Amanda teaches at the Geelong School of Botanic Art in the Geelong Botanic Gardens and with the Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.

Echeveria sp.

$1100

Coloured pencil

360 x 300 mm