Biography
Amy Iona is a lens-based artist, researcher and creative facilitator.
She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a First Class Honours in 2020 and was awarded the inaugural Baillie Gifford Creativity, Inclusivity & the Virtual award to support a year of research at the University of Glasgow, developing frameworks for access and inclusion in the creative industries. She is interested in facilitating encounters with art outwith the white cube, and contributing to projects which foster collaboration and collective care.
Amy is particularly interested in how relationships between people and nature are impacted by social and cultural identity, explored through photographic objects and alternative processes. Her work is heavily informed by Scottish folklore, esotericism and queer feminist theory.
Curriculum Vitae
Born: Edinburgh
Lives and works: Glasgow
Education
2022
MRes Creativity, Inclusivity and the Virtual | UofG
2021
MSc Museum Studies | UofG | Distinction
2020
BA (Hons) Photography | ECA | First Class
Studio Memberships & Residencies
Committee Member | Saltspace Co-Op | 2024 - present
Member | Transmission | 2025 - present
Member | Simple Arts | 2022 - 2024
Digital graduate residency | Forest Arts Edinburgh | 2020
ECA micro-residency | Granton Castle Walled Gardens | 2018
Selected Exhibitions
2025
Portraiture | The Glasgow Gallery of Photography
2023
Art Walk Porty | Portobello Promenade, Edinburgh
2022
Pathways | Roseleaf Bar + Café, Edinburgh (solo)
2021
Shutterhub: Postcards from Great Britain | Cambridge University / Les Alizés, Vendée
2020
Seascapes | The Glasgow Gallery of Photography
Alt-D x JackArts Billboard Degree Show | Edinburgh Meadows
2019
Paths for All: Humans of the Walk | Museum of Edinburgh Courtyard / Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh
Press
- The Times
- The Scotsman
- BBC Scotland
- Source Graduate Photography
- The Tab Edinburgh
- LandArt Instagram takeover (2020)
- Shutterhub: YEARBOOK 2021
- Concrete Nature no.2 & no.3
- Qmunicate Magazine (cover)
- CANVAS Journal (cover + centre spread)
Creative Facilitation
2023
Introduction to digital photography
Designed and delivered an intensive 3-week workshop programme for two cohorts at the International Summer School for Teens (University of Stirling), ages 13-17, inclusive of pupils with varying levels of photography experience and English language skills
2022
Increasing access to the arts through non-immersive Virtual Reality technology
Round-table discussion event for University of Glasgow Games and Gaming Lab
2021
we are geeks, and we are not guys
Collaborative publication commissioned by NEoN Digital Arts Festival for the Wired Women programme of events
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Conversation Garden: Are You A Cyborg? with Shannon McRae
Hybrid discussion event delivered in collaboration with The School of Cyborg for NEoN's Wired Women programme