Amanda Faulkner Self Regard, 1992

This surrealistic self-portrait is by British painter, draughtsman and printmaker Amanda Faulkner, whose work was described by Edward King as having ‘both the surreal nightmare qualities of Gogol and the shockingly intense intimacy of Sartre.’ In the existential and fantastical portrait, Self-Regard, Faulkner visualises herself as  two abstract, anthropomorphic figures.  

She attended Bournemouth College of Art, 1978–9; studied printmaking at Ravensbourne College of Art, 1979–82; then worked for her master’s at Chelsea School of Art, 1982–3. She spent two years in South America, part of a two-man team making anthropological films of the Canai Indians of Ecuador, and also worked there as an illustrator of short books on the mythology of an Amazonian group.