Avi Amesbury     Potter

Images of recent work

... 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.