Amanda Loomes lives and works in London, and holds an MA in Fine Art Painting from the Royal College of Art. Loomes received the Mini Green Documentary Award at Sheffield Documentary Festival in 2007 and the Neville Burston Memorial Award in 2006, and was shortlisted for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2006 and 2007 and was one of five shortlisted artists for the inaugural Jerwood Open Forest Commission.