Maria Amidu's artistic concerns centre on the complexities of the relational, principally the emotional register in situations between people, and between people and place. She pays close attention to the margins: that which is overlooked, withheld, suppressed or occluded, making work to substantiate what goes unaccounted for. Her practice incorporates writing, archival research, autotheortical methods, printmaking, sound, photography, film, craft – paper making, indigo dyeing, glass casting, and the soft performative role she invites audiences to play in the activation of her installation works. 

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, British Council and the Wingate Foundation. She was awarded iniva’s third Future Collection Commission, is a Churchill Fellow, and recipient of the Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Travel Bursary. Her work has been collected by the Victoria & Albert Museum, Towner Eastbourne, the Arnolfini Collection Trust and the Parliamentary Archives.