Amanda Rybicka

Amanda Rybicka was born and bred in the City of Cape Town. She majored in sculpture at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts and graduated in 2018. Amanda is inspired by the bizarre and grotesque; transforming seemingly unusual things into objects of art. Although Amanda majored in sculpture – her talents are wide and varied.

Amanda Rybicka addresses the topics of sexual assault, chronic illness and accessibility within a South African spectrum. She was a student representative of the disability service at the University of Cape Town and is dedicated to helping people feel that they are heard.

Her body of work has primarily been about invisible trauma and the effects it can have on individuals, she explores this partly by relating to her own personal experiences with trauma and how it has affected her childhood and early life – while also working with trauma survivors using creative methods of healing.