Amanda Seibæk and Helen McCusker

Amanda Seibæk and Helen McCusker are two artists, both based in Glasgow, whose practices intertwine themes of time, emotion, and material exploration. Through painting and printmaking, Seibæk investigates scientific explanations of natural phenomena as a poetic lens to examine contemporary turmoil. Her work exists across digital, paint, and print, each medium informing the next in an evolving dialogue. The layers of colour in her pieces shape figures and forms, while the interplay between print and brushwork allows for an intuitive language of motion and emotion.

McCusker’s work, rooted in painting, similarly explores the weight of time and the fleeting yet profound nature of lived experience. Her current series emerged from a process of isolating and reimagining fragments of previous paintings, expanding small moments into entire compositions. Layering paint into elusive forms, she embraces restrictions of colour and scale as a means to push her practice forward, reflecting the way life constantly asks us to reinterpret what already exists. The recurrence of vermilion red across her work speaks to the ego’s insistence—staking a claim within the shifting passage of time.

Together, Seibæk and McCusker share a deep engagement with layering—whether through material process, conceptual exploration, or the synthesis of multiple fields of knowledge. Both artists embrace movement and transformation, allowing their work to unfold through the tensions between structure and intuition, restraint and freedom. Their practices invite viewers to experience emotion as motion—shaped by time, material, and the act of looking.

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