NICK HOPTON
VISUAL artist Amy
Drumm is giving back to
Xavier College at Gawler
Belt.
Amy, 26, left the school
in 2012 but has returned
three times to mentor current
Xavier art students
in the class of her teacher
nine years ago, arts co-ordinator
Andrea Duregon.
Last week, Amy took in
to show students a stunning
new oil portrait titled
Your Pain is Mine Now.
The work – a seamless
mash-up of the faces of
Amy
comes
face to
face
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Amy Drumm’s latest portrait Your Pain is
Mine Now. PHOTO: Supplied
Amy and boyfriend Alex
Markopoulos – took about
30 hours to complete.
Explaining the inspiration
behind the work, Amy
said: “A common ambition
amongst the majority of us
is to find a companion; a
person to enjoy our brief
existence with.
“Finding a person to
grow into elderliness
with, who you can trust
entirely, is a great comfort,
yet overwhelmingly
terrifying. As time passes,
you become more attached
to one another and
unfamiliar and lost without
each other.
“With every day spent
in their company – positive
or negative – there is a
constant unsettling, underlying
current and torment;
the fear of losing them.
“Inevitably, we gain
each other’s happiness
but also pain and suffering.
I’m always grateful
but ultimately I am aware
– constantly aware – that
one day a person who I
see as a piece of myself
will no longer be there, or
I won’t be there for them.”
Amy, who now lives in
Millswood, began studying
a Bachelor of Visual Art at
Adelaide Central School of
Art part-time in 2017. Two
years later, she completed
an oil painting workshop at
The Art Academy, taught
by Robin Eley.
She said she painted in
oils and was mainly interested
in portraiture and surrealism.
Often her paintings were
drawn “from personal experience
conveyed through
the use of symbolism, leaving
them open for interpretation”.
Amy works as a casual
assistant at Duthy Street
Art Supplies in Unley.
Her website is amyjdrumm.
com.