Amanda Eliasch

Amanda Eliasch
Amanda Eliasch
Born	Amanda J. Brown Beirut, Lebanon
Nationality	British
Occupation	Photographer, filmmaker

Amanda Eliasch is an English photographer, artist, poet and filmmaker.

Amanda Eliasch was born in Beirut, Lebanon, where her father Anthony Cave Brown worked as a reporter at the time for the Daily Mail, he later wrote numerous books on espionage and World War 11. She returned to England when she was 6 weeks old, and was brought up by her grandfather, film director Sidney Gilliat, who encouraged her with artistic pursuits. She is a graduate of the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts.

Her first major black and white photographic exhibition was 'Three Way Mirror', held in London in 1999 at The Cork Street Gallery. Her photography work often consists of glossy fashion-shoot images and black and white nudes. In November 2001 she exhibited a series of photographic contact sheets in a London exhibition, at The Proud Gallery, called 'Peep'. Her early work was given a brief review in British Journal of Photography. Her portraits of 47 British artists were published (with text by Gemma De Cruz) in British artists at work in 2003, and were chosen by both Publishers Weekly and Art Monthly for their lists of seasonal highlights; the collection was also published in French as Artistes contemporains: Londres. From this book Eliasch started her own collection through photographing and entertaining many artists including Tracey Emin and Polly Morgan in her St Tropez home. According to photographer Bob Carlos Clarke, she served ostrich eggs for breakfast.

Her photographs have appeared in Made by Indians (2007), a book on Indian contemporary art curated by Fabrice Bouret, and Made by Brazilians (2014), a book on Brazilian contemporary art curated by Fabrice Bouret.

In 2008, Chipmunka Publishing published her book of poetry, Cloak & Dagger Butterfly. Based on the book and a letter she wrote to her father, Eliasch produced a theatrical production As I like it at London's Chelsea Theatre in July 2011; later that year it was transferred to the Macha Theatre in Los Angeles. In 2010 she published Sins of a Butterfly, a poetry collection. During the Summer of 2011 Eliasch produced the Rebel Show of James Franco at the Venice Film Festival with Liberatum

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