I was born in North Wales and grew up in Malvern, Worcestershire, to a family of artists. After beginning my career at the Ministry of Defence, I followed my long‑held passion for the arts, completing a Humanities degree with the Open University and an MA in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford‑upon‑Avon. I went on to work as a Script Reader for the Royal Shakespeare Company before training in Museum and Gallery Studies at the University of St Andrews.

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My curatorial career included posts at the Holst Birthplace Museum in Cheltenham and as Keeper of Art at Torre Abbey in Torquay, where I also presented a weekly arts radio show on Riviera FM. In 2015, a new chapter began when I relocated to Carinthia, Austria. My first book, Walking into Alchemy: The Transformative Power of Nature, was published by Mereo Books in 2019. Following a successful Startnext crowdfunding campaign during lockdown, a German edition was released in 2021.

 

Alongside my writing, I work as an English Trainer and lecture on Shakespeare in Austria and the UK. I have written several plays, all performed by Malvern Theatre Players, including Nay, Remember Me!, which formed the centrepiece of the Malvern Shakespeare Folio 400 Festival in 2023.

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I am currently completing Inherited Images: A Daughter's Journey Through Art and War, a work of literary non‑fiction in which I reconstruct my father’s wartime life. He was stationed at RAF camps across Britain, then sailed from Newhaven to Port Said, finally ending up in post-war Austria at RAF Klagenfurt. I uncover his story using his diaries, Neo-Romantic watercolours, his twin brother’s autobiography, which I discovered in 2024, and a large family archive of paintings and documents.

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Images: 

Top - Amelia Marriette, Hiking in Carinthia, Austria. Photo Credit Katie Gayle

​Amelia Marriette on the Q3 Hike. The walk that became the subject of her book, Walking into Alchemy.

Amelia Marriette, presenting her Radio Show - Amelia's Culture Show - on Riviera FM radio. Photo Credit Martin Foster. 

Amelia Marriette - Keeper of Art and Head of Collections - Torre Abbey, South Devon. Photo Credit Sarah Bagnall.

Ben Bradshaw, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Amelia Marriette, Keeper of Art, Torre Abbey. Amelia Marriette organised Antony Gormley's Field for the British Isles Exhibition. Photo Credit Karen Stone (Press).