{"id":282,"date":"2015-11-21T19:28:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T08:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amandahassett.com\/?page_id=282"},"modified":"2015-11-21T19:28:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T08:58:47","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.amandahassett.com\/?page_id=282","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Emerging artist Amanda Hassett has centred her art practice on exploring our collective humanity; what it means to be human, today.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>A figurative artist working in a variety of mediums, Amanda\u2019s work is characterised by a probing narrative exploring a personal experience of the big questions which surround us in this particular age &#8211; technology, sustainability, society, our shifting identities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A life working in print and online media,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>games and virtual environments, has brought a long term perspective to Amanda\u2019s work.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Her experiences from the digital world have shaped her thinking and led her to research psychology and game theory, resulting in a recent series of works which question our identities in an increasingly digital world. Similarly her role as a mother and household decision maker have led her to also research sustainability and how our collective attitudes shape our world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Amanda is motivated by a concern for who we are, where we are going, and how the issues of the day affect us all. The inspiration for individual works or series comes from in-depth research of a person or set of behaviours. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Her work explores aspect of her subjects lives,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>and often has an intensely personal quality.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI want others to see people as I see them &#8211; to think about our humanity.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>People are complicated, multilayered, beautiful, yet flawed and vulnerable&#8230;it is infinitely fascinating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ultimately the work Amanda makes acts as a vehicle to communicate an understanding of our common humanity, and expresses a considered perspective on contemporary issues which affect us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerging artist Amanda Hassett has centred her art practice on exploring our collective humanity; what it means to be human, today.\u00a0 A figurative artist working in a variety of mediums, Amanda\u2019s work is characterised by a probing narrative exploring a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amandahassett.com\/?page_id=282\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-282","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amandahassett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amandahassett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amandahassett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amandahassett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amandahassett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.amandahassett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"http:\/\/www.amandahassett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/282\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amandahassett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}