Amy Woodward is a photographic artist currently living and working on Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi Country (Sunshine Coast) Australia.

Intrigued by the fragile and fleeting nature of everyday life and the human experience, Amy approaches her practice with sensitivity and reverence for all stages of life but often pays particular attention to the passage of motherhood.

Amy’s own turbulent journey into matrescence drives her desire to honestly portray the chaos and intensity of early parenthood and family life. Themes relating to neurodivergence weave into her personal work; a lived reality for her and her first son, and one that presents its own set of complexities still being explored.

Born in country Victoria on Pangerang Country, she was drawn to the medium of photography from an early age as a way to catalogue the constant changes around her. Moving houses, schools and states was a regular occurrence during her childhood. Amy completed a Bachelor of Arts (Photography) at RMIT in 2016.

Amy's work has been recognised in the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize (finalist, 2021) Photo Collective Stories (finalist, 2021) Photo Collective Australian Photography Awards Portrait Category (finalist 2020 & 2021) The Independent Photographer Portrait Award (3rd place, 2021) PALM* Photo Prize (shortlisted 2021) and the Head On Photo Awards (semi-finalist, 2021) amongst others. Her work has been exhibited at the Monash Gallery of Art, Center for Contemporary Photography, Tinning Street (solo), OPR gallery in Milan, 10 14 Gallery in London, and screened as part of the PhotoVogue 10 year anniversary video at PhotoVogue Festival. She has also been featured in publications such as D - La Repubblica, Rolling Stone IT and Creative Review.