Amy Marie Gladding

Amy Marie Gladding is a photographic artist based in Suffolk, born in Ipswich in 1986. She took a BTEC National Diploma in Art and Design at Suffolk College from 2002 to 2004, a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Swansea Metropolitan University from 2004 to 2007, and a Professional Graduate Certificate in Education at University Campus Suffolk from 2010 to 2011.

She is a mixed-media artist with a background in fine art, exploring the natural world and memory through an experimental and tactile photographic practice. Her work goes beyond traditional photography, taking in analogue processes such as cyanotype printing, chemigrams, chromatography and anthotypes to make evocative and reimagined landscapes. She shoots on large format, medium format, 35mm, 110 and Polaroid, and often manipulates her negatives physically. In moving image she uses Super 8 film alongside creative writing and field recordings, carrying the same themes of place and perception further. The results blur the boundary between art and photography, and invite the viewer to experience the landscape in a new and poetic way.

She showed at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2006. Her solo exhibitions include Motherlands at the Watch House in Orford and A River at Asylum Gallery. Her 2026 exhibitions include Loop at Four Corners Gallery in London and In Motion We Remember, screened at the National Gallery, and in 2025 she won the Ipswich Society's Architecture award, was shortlisted for Suffolk Shorts at East Anglian Film Festival, and showed in the Summer Contemporary at Snape Maltings and the Summer Open at the Assembly House in Norwich. She has held a risograph residency at The Art Station in Saxmundham and a residency and exhibition at Asylum Studios, Bentwaters.

She teaches art and heads the photography department at Northgate High School and Sixth Form, where she has taught since 2015, and before that was head of art and photography at Stowmarket High School. She has led workshops for Suffolk Artlink, Ipswich Maritime Trust and The Art Station.