Amelia Barratt is an artist based in Glasgow working with painting, writing and performance. She studied at Glasgow School of Art and received an MFA from Slade School of Art, London. Between 2016 and 2019 she programmed the London-based performance series Oral Rinse with Martha Barratt, and in 2021 was artist in residence for the Library at Drawing Room, London.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Out Of Hours, A_Place, Glasgow; Cut Wire, William Hine, London; Cool Ground, Board Room Committee Room, Glasgow. Performance highlights include readings at: Museum of London; Royal Academy, London; Live Art Development Agency, London; Seventeen, London; Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow and Esplanade, Singapore.

With writing she has collaborated with various artists across live performance, visual art, fashion, radio and music. Recent projects include spoken texts made in response to the work of painters such as Gabriella Boyd, Dickon Drury, Devlin Shea and Guo-Liang Tan; and commissions for new writing from MAP Magazine, David Dale Gallery, Sasha Galitzine and Uferhallen Berlin. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio, NPR and Resonance FM.

She is the author of Real Life (Charles Asprey, 2022), a collection of performance texts published in print and audio. In 2023 an audio collaboration with the artist Christian Flamm, An Entertainment, was released on cassette (Studio Scilla).

Loose Talk, an album in collaboration with Bryan Ferry was released in March 2025 on Dene Jesmond Records and has been praised by critics as ‘intriguing and impressively original’ (The Guardian, Album of The Week), ‘interesting and elegant’ (The Sunday Times, Album of The Week), ‘a hauntingly evocative masterpiece’ (Buzz Magazine).