Creative Future hosted a free event ‘Meet the Artist: Maria Amidu.’ Our ‘Meet the Artist/Writer’ series showcases writers and artists from under-represented backgrounds and how they got their work ‘out there’.

Maria is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, and exhibited nationally and internationally before pursuing a social practice. She has developed projects with a number of museums, galleries and organisations including:

• Houses of Parliament
• National Maritime Museum Greenwich
• People United
• Turner Contemporary
• PEER
• A New Direction
• Parramatta Artists’ Studios
• V&A
• Arnolfini
• Bristol Royal Children’s Hospital
• Iniva
• Foundling Museum
• Hackney Museum
• Metropolitan Archives
• Horniman Museum & Garden
• 198 Gallery

Her work is in a number of collections, including the Pilkington Collection at the V&A Museum, London; the Arnolfini Collection Trust, Bristol; and the National Drawing Collection, Limerick. She has won a wide range of fellowships, grants and awards.

You can view our highlights video from the event below.