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Amanda Beech is an artist and writer. Her work proposes a new realist politics of the artwork and its possibilities in the context of contingency. Recent solo shows include: Final Machine, 2013, Lanchester Gallery Projects, UK, and HaGamle Prestagard, Norway, with the accompanying publication Final Machine (Urbanomic Press); Sanity Assassin 2010 (a video exploring LA modernism), with publication Sanity Assassin 2010 (Urbanomic Press), including exhibitions at Spike Island, Bristol, Tate Britain, London and Beaconsfield Gallery, London; and Statecraft an Arts Council commission exploring Fredrick Gibberd’s architectural master-plan for Harlow New Town, exhibited Harlow, UK and DNA Gallery, Berlin, 2008. Her critical writing includes ‘An Exercise in Fatality’, catalogue essay for Anthony Gross’ Burnt Wood Stories, The Agency Gallery, London, also in Divus Umelec, 2013; ‘Curatorial Futures with the image: Overcoming scepticism and Unbinding the Relational’ Journal of Visual Arts Practice, Volume 9.2: pp. 139-151, Intellect, 2011 and a roundtable discussion on ‘Speculative Materialism’, Spike Quarterly, June 2013 with Armen Avanessian, Suhail Malik and Robin Mackay. Forthcoming writing includes 'Concept Without Difference’, in Realism, Materialism, Art, Sternberg Press, 2014 and upcoming conferences include The Flood of Rights, Arles, France, and Generative Constraints, London, both 2013.