Amy Todman

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Amy Todman is a writer and emerging visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, painting, animation, objects, and text. Originally from Scotland, she has made Beirut, Lebanon her home after an extended period in Armenia. In 2018, Todman shifted her focus to her art practice, finding her way to Lebanon via Armenia, where the warmth of Beirut has profoundly influenced her painting, poetry, and worldview. Her work explores materiality and the complexities of language, delving into the intertwined systems and frameworks that shape the evolution of an artwork over time. Todman holds a degree in fine art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (Dundee, Scotland), an MLitt in the History of Collecting and Collections from the University of Glasgow, and a PhD examining the concept of landscape in Britain during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Previously, she served as Curator of Art and Political Collections at the National Library of Scotland in the Manuscripts and Archives Department. Her recent solo exhibitions include The Partial Foreground at the Henrik Igyityan National Centre for Aesthetics (Yerevan, Armenia), From Here to There at Dalan Art Gallery (Yerevan, Armenia), and and the smell of the flowers is everything I don’t say at Agial Art Gallery (Beirut, Lebanon). Todman has also published two poetry collections, Twig (2019) and G(love) (Sad Press, 2018), alongside an artist book, Cover (Brae Editions, 2014).