Gravity Artist

Drip Painter, with a twist. Creates recognizable things with drips—not just abstract things.

Career Highlights

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The Great Canadian LEEDscape

This 53-foot-long panorama of Canada was featured in a national travelling exhibition (2017-18) and is now owned by a private collector.

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Solo Public Exhibitions

2021 Upcoming - Art Gallery of Northumberland (Cobourg)
2017  Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (Bowmanville), THE MUSEUM (Kitchener)

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Collaborations

Facebook Canada - Live painting performance & commission
Home Hardware - Live painting performance & commission
University of Cincinnati - Guest Artist & theatrical projection

Featured Paintings

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Skylight Grove (California + Italy) 2019, 30" x 30" - Commission  

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In My Element (Croatia + Toronto) 2019, 30" x 30" - Self Portrait

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A New Day (Toronto + California) 2019, 30" x 30"

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Strong Roots (Kleinburg), 2018, 16" x 20" - Winner of 2018 McMichael En Plein Air Painting Competition

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Detail: Greenhouse Effect (Colorado + New York) 2018, 45" x 90" Triptych

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Stand Your Ground (Toronto + Kleinburg) 2019, 45" x 60"

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"My work raises questions about our future — be it utopian or apocalyptic."

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Painting Technique

In place of conventional brushes, Shackleton uses squeeze bottles and gravity to create her paintings. Liquid paint is dripped, poured and layered. The canvas is rotated to steer the drip and fall of the paint. Videos featuring her innovative technique have reached over 15 million people worldwide.

What people are saying

I have worked closely with many Artists, and in many capacities. Amy Shackleton is the most trustworthy, responsible, reliable, creative, ethical, skilled, kind, and intelligent of people."

Jeremy Desjardine (Educator, Artist)

I received my beautiful painting today!! It came through perfectly. All that bubble wrap did its job... it's even more beautiful in person than we anticipated. Thank you!!"

B.B. (Art Collector)

Although Shackleton's paintings are intended to be designs for quotidian urban agriculture of the future, many paintings could also be perceived as jarringly atrophic."

Matthew Ryan Smith (Curator)

Amy’s painting style was unique and certainly very entertaining for the crowds that watched her create the marvellous paintings right there, live on the show floor."

Doug Parsons, Home Hardware (Client)

Notably absent in all Shackleton’s paintings are people, traffic and other living presences. Absence leaves space for projection; space, scale and time are ambiguous, incongruencies go unnoticed."

Todd Tremeer (Curator, Artist, Educator)