BIOGRAPHY
At the core of Tye’s practice is a search for balance, bringing order to chaos through the language of line, shape and rhythm. Fragmented forms are intuitively reworked and rearranged until a sense of harmony and stillness begins to emerge. Through her practice, her paintings become both emotional landscapes and quiet acts of resolution.
‘My current practice is about walking for hours in the landscape that pulls my attention. Painting is a combination of reliving an experience, energy, desire, and bringing order after having pulled it apart to understand it. ” Amanda Tye
Tye grew up in the heart of the bush on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Tye studied Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales, graduating in 2000. She then went on to complete her Bachelor of Art Education and taught Visual Arts and photography for 15 years, all while practising her painting. In 2017, she left teaching to pursue a full-time career as an artist, and now has a studio surrounded by bushland.
Tye has been a finalist in The Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize 2024, National Emerging Art Prize, ACB selects 2023, the Northern Beaches Art Prize 2021 Southern Buoy Landscape Prize 2020, Glover Art Prize 2019, The Fleurieu Art Prize 2018, Mosman Art Prize 2015, and twice winner of the People’s Choice Warringah Art Prize (Northern Beaches Art Prize). She has held solo shows at HAKE House of Art, Art2muse Gallery, Thienny Lee Gallery and Sydney Road Gallery. Tye’s work is held in collections across the world and is often used by interior designers for styling.
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EDUCATION
2002 Bachelor of Art Education: College of Fine Arts, UNSW
2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts: College of Fine Arts, UNSW
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Solo Where the Water Remembers, Art2muse Gallery NSW
2025 Solo Natures Frequency, Hake House of Art NSW
2024 Solo Authentic Perspective, Hake House of Art NSW
2023 Solo Permanent Vacation, Hake House of Art NSW
2022 Solo Pink Antidote, Sydney Road Gallery NSW
2021 Solo Still water runs deep. Sydney Road Gallery NSW
2020 Solo A Coast line and Between, Thienny Lee Gallery NSW
2019 Solo Beyond the Edge Exhibition, Sydney Road Gallery NSW
2018 Solo Ocean Water Shore: Art Gallery on Darling Balmain NSW
2017 Solo The Colour Trap Gallery Avalon NSW
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Common Ground, Hake House of Art NSW
2025 Summer Art Soiree, Sorrento Gallery Manyung Gallery VIC
2024 Soft Refractions, Hake House of Art NSW
2024 Hake Hang, Hake House of Art NSW
2024 Soft Refractions, Hake House of Art NSW
2024 World Making/The Me I Saw, Hake House of Art NSW
2023 Peninsula Panorama, Flinders Gallery Manyung Gallery VIC
2023 Group Show Mt Eliza Gallery Manyung Gallery VIC
2023 The Other Art Fair Sydney
2022 Group Christmas exhibition A K Bellinger Gallery Inverall NSW
2022 Balmy, Hake House of Art NSW
2022 Gallery Opening , Company We Keep, HAKE Gallery, NSW
2022 Bold Landscapes Group Show The Corner Store Gallery NSW
2021 Opening of new Mt Eliza Gallery Manyung Gallery VIC
2019 Home, Manly Art Gallery and Museum NSW
2019 The Other Art Fair Sydney
2018 Duo The View of Two, Sydney Road Gallery NSW
2017 Group Exhibition Land, Manly Art Gallery and Museum NSW
2017-2022 x40 Group exhibitions Sydney Road Gallery NSW
2016 Natural to Abstraction, Creative Space NSW
2014 Soul Works Exhibition, Creative Space NSW
2008 Solo Angel Café NSW
2000 Home UNSW COFA Gallery Sydney
AWARDS
2024 Finalist Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize Manly Art Gallery & Museum
2022 Finalist National Emerging Arts Prize ACB Selects Online
2021 Finalist Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize Manly Art Gallery & Museum
2021 Finalist Mini Series Art Prize The Corner Store Gallery NSW
2020 Finalist Southern Bouy Landscape Prize VIC
2019 Finalist Glover Prize TAS
2018 Finalist Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize: Stump Hill Gallery SA
2017 Finalist Warringah Art Prize (aka Northern Beaches Art Prize) NSW
2015 Winner Peoples Choice Award Warringah Art Prize General Category
2012 Finalist Warringah Art Prize (aka Northern Beaches Art Prize) NSW
2011 Finalist Mosman Art Prize NSW
2010 Winner Peoples Choice Award Warringah Art Prize General Category
PUBLICATIONS & EXPRERIENCE
2025 Home Beautiful magazine, by Jessica Bellef Top 40 Australian Artists to watch 2025
2025 Creative Parents, Interview by Emma Kate Wilson,
2025 House and Garden Magazine by Judy Pascoe
2024 Art and Style magazine, featured artist profile “In stillness and in motion”
2024 Home Beautiful magazine, featured in “Bringing art home”
2022 Beaches Covered Magazine, feature article “Paint your own story”
2020 Art Almanac, feature article “A Coastline and In between”
2017-2021 Founding Member of Sydney Road Gallery
2021 Podcast interview ART WANK
2019 3 day Artist workshop with Idris Murphy
2019 Guest Speaker Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sustaining a creative Career
2018 2 day artist workshop with Luke Sciberras
2002-2015 Visual Arts & Photography Digital Media Secondary School Teacher, Manly Selective Campus
COLLECTIONS
Australian Government Department of Transport
Private Collections in Australia and Overseas