... Avi Amesbury uses the making process, involving the use of materials collected from the land, as a means to explore the multi-layered and intricate relationships between landscape, experience and memory. The forms combine slab and slipcast construction with stamping, a technique she uses to express conceptual rather than decorative concerns. Stylised plaster stamps based on Australian natural symbols are impressed into slabs of soft clay with the images merging, overlapping and distorting each other, creating an apparently random layering of texture and fossil-like imagery. This process of mark making allows the exploration of a personal relationship with the Australian landscape while creating allusions with its physical and spiritual presence, both past and present.
Selected group exhibitions
| 2008 | Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramic Award - Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Victoria |
| 2008 | Stanthorpe Art Prize 08 - Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Queensland |
| 2007 | Townsville Ceramic Awards, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville |
| 2007 | tracelines, New Craft Future Voices International Craft Conference, University of Dundee, Scotland |
| 2007 | 30th Alice Craft Acquisition, Alice Springs |
| 2007 | Convergence: A north/south discourse, 41st Annual Conference, NCECA 2007, Kentucky, USA |
| 2006 | Cowra Festival Art Awards - Cowra Art Gallery, Cowra |
| 2006 | Impact, Watling Galleries, Brisbane |
| 2006 | Annual Gold Coast international ceramic art award - Gold Coast City Art Gallery |
| 2006 | The colour of white - Sturt Gallery, Mittagong |
| 2006 | Crust - touring exhibition, Gold City Art Gallery, Queensland |
| 2006 | 2 Materials - Craft ACT Accredited Professional Members Exhibition, Canberra |
| 2006 | Stanthorpe Art Prize, Stanthorpe Art Gallery, Stanthorpe |
| 2005 | Annual Gold Coast international ceramic art award - Gold Coast City Art Gallery |
| 2005 | Valency: Combining creative processes - CSIRO Discovery, Canberra |
| 2005 | 29th Alice craft acquisition - Araluen Galleries, Alice Springs |
| 2005 | Earth water fire - Tuggeranong Art Gallery, Canberra |
| 2005 | Smoke free zone - ANCA Gallery, Canberra |
| 2005 | Cloth and clay: Ancient traditional and new perspectives - Strathnairn Gallery, Canberra |
| 2004 | Annual Gold Coast international ceramic art award - Gold Coast City Art Gallery |
| 2004 | The essence of structure - Foyer Gallery, Canberra |
| 2003 | Annual Gold Coast international ceramic art award - Gold Coast City Art Gallery |
| 2003 | Next wave - Ceramic Art Gallery, Sydney |
| 2003 | Alliance Française - Canberra, Canberra |
Awards, grants and scholarships
| 2007 | Janet Holmes á Court Artist Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts |
| 2007 | ActewAGL Grant |
| 2006 | Merit Award, Open hand formed and sculpture, Port Hacking Exhibition |
| 2006 | artsACT Artist Presentation Grant |
| 2006 | Acquisition Award, Stanthorpe Arts Festival |
| 2006 | Craft ACT Craft-in-Site Presentation and Promotion Grant |
| 2005 | Raglan Gallery Exhibition Award |
| 2004 | Clayworks Award, Canberra Potters' Society Members Exhibition |
| 2003 | Acquisition Award, Annual Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award |
| 2003 | Craft ACT Exhibition Award, Australia |
| 2002 | Strathnairn Arts Association Inc. Exhibition Award, Australia |
| 2002 | Lyle T. Cullen Memorial Prize, Australia |
| 2002 | EASS Alliance Française of Canberra Exhibition Award, Australia |
| 2002 | EASS Clayworks Award, Australia |
| 2000 | Student Exchange Scholarship, Australian National University |