Maria Amidu’s artistic concerns centre on the complexities of the relational – between people and between people and place. She pays specific attention to what is hidden, obscured or unspoken in collective situations, making work to  substantiate unseen dynamics. Her practice incorporates writing, printmaking, sound, film, craft – paper making, indigo dyeing, glass casting, and the soft performative role  she invites audiences to play in the activation of her installation work. 

Maria has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions: in the perpetual back and forth, Towner Eastbourne (2024), living in fear of quicksand, Nunnery Gallery Bow Arts and Towner Hamlets Local History Library & Archives (2023), Untitled: an INDEX exhibition of work in progress, iniva (2023), and Unruly Encounters, Southwark Park Galleries (2022).

She has received awards from Arts Council England, London Arts & Humanities Partnership, The Churchill Fellowship, British Council and the Wingate Foundation. Her work has been collected by the Victoria & Albert Museum, Towner Eastbourne,  Arnolfini and the Parliamentary Archives.