Amy Todman graduated with a Ba (hons) Fine Art (first class) from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in 2003. For the next four years she lived in Leeds, England, and Glasgow, Scotland, working on a range of public art and education projects. In 2007 she attained a post as education officer trainee at the Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, an experience that fostered interests in landscape, museums and the collecting of contemporary art. During this time she also discovered interests in small press publishing, later developing a more formal relationship with the small press Brae Editions (Alistair Peebles). In 2008 she returned to the mainland to study at the University of Glasgow, completing an Mlitt History of Collecting and Collections (distinction) with a dissertation exploring the foundations and founding plant collections of the Glasgow Botanic Gardens. This interest in natural history and landscape formed the nucleus for what would become her PhD (completed 2013) which considers the development of the idea of landscape in Britain over the course of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Seeking to extend her practical knowledge of collections and archives outside of the University sphere she moved into the archival world, gaining employment first as Referendum Curator at the National Library of Scotland and latterly as Curator of Political Collections in the department of Manuscripts & Archives at the same institution. In 2018, with a developing creative practice, and a desire to engage with new cultures and communities, she moved to Armenia to develop her art, writing and archival practice. In the summer of 2022 she moved to Lebanon.