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Amanda Thomson may or may not be coming back to the USA specifically for the opening of her new show "A Wheen o' Timmer". I don't want to speculate, but I'm pretty sure that is the sole reason for her return.* What does that mean for us dear reader/viewer? It means that this month at the Bakery is a big, honking deal that's what!

Not only will she be here on the evening of her opening (Thursday, April 14th 6:00pm - 8:00pm) but she has generously offered to do a public artist lecture at St. Ambrose (Galvin Fine Art Center Rm 141) at 4:00 pm. Should you miss it? Probably not. What's it going to be about? Why don't you ask me what it ISN'T going to be about? (kittens, carnival rides, archetypes of golden age comic characters, rubylith, hopscotch, my uncle, and many other things won't be gracing any topic list) 

* not the sole reason... just good timing. 

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Here's Amanda's statement to help you figure some stuff out. Go ahead and speak it out loud in your movie voice.

Originally from Scotland, Amanda Thomson has a 1st class BA(hons) from the Glasgow School of Art. She completed an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008.

Her creative practice is ideas and research-led, fusing traditional and digital printmaking techniques, photography, bookmaking, video, installation and sound, and has recently expanded to include the practice of walking and using a GPS. Her work is often about how we are located (and locate ourselves) in the world, notions of space and place and absence or subtle presence. Other interests include notions of landscape, wilderness and migration, and the assertion and reclamation of 'home' coupled with the mutability and temporality of belonging.

In October 2009 she started an arts-practice led, interdisciplinary PhD based at the University of the Highlands and Islands and with the anthropology department of the University of Aberdeen. Drawing on art, anthropology and human geography in particular, and with a (walking) ethnographic element feeding into her arts practice, the PhD is entitled, In the forest, field and studio: art/ making/ methodology in explorations of familiarity and unfamiliarity, in some of the forests and landscapes of the North of Scotland.

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This work is what I'd eagerly call sumptuous. The contrast is amazing, the context is amazing...just good to look at and think about. Please remember that these are, in fact, etchings. Now look at them again. What? yep. Now you simply must come and see them. 

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Here is the standard who-what-where-when-why spiel. 

What:            “A Wheen o’ Timmer” an exhibition of etchings, digital prints, artist’s books and more

Who:               Amanda Thomson

When:            Opening - April 14^th from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm. The show will run from the 14^th of April until June 10^th.  The Bakery Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 7:00 am until 9:00 pm. (As is the delicious Eastside Bakery)

Where:             The Bakery Gallery – 1330 E. 12^th Street, Davenport Iowa 52803

Contact:          the gallery - www.thebakerygallery.blogspot.com,

joseph lappie – pepticrobot@pepticrobotpress.com,

Event:             Artist’s Talk: Work and Progress. 4:00 pm at the Galvin Fine Art

Center, Rm. 141 St. Ambrose University.

Reviews:        We’d love it. Please consider doing so. 

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With an emphatic yelp I urge you to spread this information far and wide. See some great new work, support your local community, immerse yourself in one of the few galleries in the cities and the only print/artist's book gallery for many miles around. (one day I'll figure out how many miles around) 

We'd love to see you there. As always the bells are optional. 

Joseph