Amber Cannings

Cannings graduated with a first class degree in Fine Art at Loughborough University, where she also completed a year of study at the Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain. Her work is centered around space and place, she takes energy from her surroundings and represents not just the way things look, but the essence of them, how it feels to be there in that exact moment. The place around her naturally weaves into the paintings, be that a gritty underground station in Berlin, or a beautiful sunset on a Spanish beach. It offers a window into her own lived experience and covers themes of nostalgia, loneliness, and exploration.

Cannings work speaks of the unfiltered life in Berlin, ranging from the humorous Dildo King signs dotted around the city to the infamous Kottbusser Tor area where she can be found painting en plein air. Cannings paints using a representational style, forming powerful snapshots of contemporary existence by melding together personal references, texts, and landscapes into distinctive painterly compositions. She draws on references from living in Spain, Wales, and whichever country she travels to, touching on aspect that make these places unique.

Born in 1966 Southampton – England
Currently lives and works in Berlin- Germany

Exhibitions

Selected group Exhibitions
2025 Knospen und Beton, Erster Erster, Berlin, Germany
2024 BAAM #08, Arena Market, Berlin, Germany
HAAM #02, Kraftwerk Bille, Hamburg, Germany
What We See, Gallerie Erster Erster, Berlin, Germany
Group Eva Mamlok – Stories of Resistance, Fhxb (Kreuzberg
Museum), Berlin, Germany
BAAM #07, Monopol, Berlin, Germany
2023
BAAM #06, Notagallery, Berlin, Germany
BAAM #05, Paul-Linke-Ufer 44A Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Eva Mamlok, Gallery Auslage, Berlin, Germany
Shadows, Chromart Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2022 BAAM #4, Moos Space, Berlin, Germany
BAAM #3, Monopol, Berlin, Germany
Beyond the Bubble, Gallerie V, Cambridge, England
2021 Blue Sky at Blue Sky, Bangor (Wales), UK
North Wales Art House Exhibition 2021 at Hendre Hall, Anglesey, UK
Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize, Virtual Exhibition (Covid-
19), London, UK
2020 Now That We Are Free? at An Indian Summer Festival, Virtual Exhibition
(Covid-19), Leicester, UK
Loughborough Universtiy Virtual Degree Show, Loughborough University,
Loughborough, UK
LINE, YOU’VE CROSSED IT, The Welcome Mat, Loughborough, UK
2019 Surface Spotlight, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
Coordenadas, Universidad de Zaragoza, Teruel, Spain
2018 Desperate Optimism, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
DD/MM/YY, The Welcome Mat, Loughborough, UK
Art and Technology, The Manufacturing Technology Centre, Coventry, UK

Solo Exhibitions
2024 Dildo King, Atelier HoheSee, Berlin, Germany
2023 Eva Mamlok, Gallery Auslage, Berlin, Germany

Awards
2020 AIS (An Indian Summer) Open, Finalist
Awarded Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize for Best Upcoming Artist
Loughborough University Short Film Award, First place

Residences
2022 Cel del Nord, Oristá, Catalunya