Amanda Sumpter is a contemporary stone carver living and working in East Sussex. She completed an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and worked as an installation and performance artist until a chance encounter with stone carving in 2004 introduced her to this ‘immersive, protracted but endlessly addictive process’.

Working predominantly in alabaster and limestone, her work explores themes of fragility and transformation. Her sculptures evoke organic, fluid forms that appear familiar yet remain ambiguous. As with forms in nature that transform over time, Sumpter works the surface of the stone to create soft folds and swellings that suggest an energy and tension between the outer skin and the pressure within.

Amanda was the winner of the Art Gemini Prize for Sculpture in 2024.