Amy Dury studied BA Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art (1993–97) and an MA Fine Art at University of Brighton(2000–02).
She works in oil and acrylic paint, alongside drawing and mixed media.
Recent notable events include appearing on Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year ’21, and accepted for the 2021 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. In March 2021 she conducted a livestream portrait painting session for the Tate Instagram. She was chosen to respond to Edvard Munch print for Society of Scottish Artists 22/23 Annual Show. In 2024 she exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Show and in early 2025 she is a guest Presenter for two episodes of Sky Arts ‘Artist Masterclasses’. In 2026 she has designed the artwork for the Hermès event Le Saut at the Grand Palais in Paris and has her first major solo show in Berlin.
She lives and works in Hove.
- EXHIBITIONS & NOTABLE
- 2026 Commissioned by Hèrmes ‘Le Saut’ decor for the Grand Palais
- 2026 Solo Show Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin
- 2026 Dance Out – Royal West of England Academy group show curated by David Remfry (May- August)
- 2026 Odyssey At Hastings Contemporary (March-May)
- 2026 Solo Show Camerson Contemporary Brighton (October)
- 2026 Salon Show Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Palm Beach (October)
- 2025 Solo Show Tambaran 2 Gallery New York
- 2025 Guest Presenter Sky Arts ‘Artists Masterclasses’
- 2025 Judge for Sussex portrait Artist of the Year
- 2025 Solo Show Cameron Contemporary Art Brighton
- 2025 Public Mural of Mercedes Glietze for Hove Lagoon
- 2025 Visiting lecturer at the University of Michigan
- 2024 Solo Show ‘Souvenir’ – Lido Stores Margate
- 2024 Cass Art Prize – Shortlisted
- 2024 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
- 2024 Green and Stone Gallery Open Call
- 2024 Brighton College Commission – seven paintings
- 2024 Group Show Tambaran 2 Gallery, New York
- 2024 Winter Show Stratford Gallery UK
- 2023 Solo Show Cameron Contemporary Art, Hove
- 2023 July Group Show Janet Rady Fine Art
- 2023 July Atelier Open, Brighton
- 2023 Royal Society of Portrait Painters
- 2023 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour
- 2022/3 Society of Scottish Artists 130th Annual Exhibition – Commissioned piece responding to Edvard Munch
- 2022 December Guest on John Daltons Art Podcast
- 2022 October – Sussex Contemporary at the i360 Brighton – 2 pieces
- 2022 November – ING Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries, London – I piece
- 2022 September Figures Group Show Cameron Contemporary, Hove
- 2022 July -Beep Contemporary, Swansea
- 2022 August – Oxmarket Contemporary Open – Chichester
- 2022 July Atelier Brighton Open Call – Two paintings selected
- 2022 Trinity Buoy Wharf Gallery , London- Group Show
- 2022 March ‘Time & Place’ with Jane Campling -Cameron Contemporary, Hove
- 2022 March Featured in Sussex Life Magazine
- 2022 February Featured in ‘Artists and Illustrators’Magazine
- 2022 February Winner of Zealous Painting Stories
- 2021 A Sense of Place – Group Show – Lanehouse Arts, St Leonards
- 2021 S8 E5 Sky Portrait Artist of the Year contestant
- 2021 ‘Amy Dury & Phillip Maltman’ at Rise Gallery, Berwick St., London
- 2021 Reconfiguring – 3 person Show at The Regency Town House, Brighton
- 2021 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize – ‘Self-Defence’
- 2021 Society of Women Artists Annual Open Exhibition – ‘Council Worker’
- 2021 Livestream Portrait painting for the Tate -painting Cornelia Parker for International Womens Day.
- 2021 Rise Gallery, Soho group Show