Amanda Rabey studied paniting at the Slade School of Fine Art where she won the Sir Andrew Taylor Prize, The Monnington Prize for Drawing and the Boise Scholarship which enabled her to travel in Brazil for nine months, studying the conflict between synthetic and natural environments, a theme central to her work.
She was a finalist in the Nat West Prize for the Nineties and has paintings in many private collections as well as The New Hall Art Collection and the Newcastle Laboratories.