Amy’s conceptual, spatial and text-based practice blends elements of gallery display with real-world outcomes in order to extend and unsettle the relationship between artist, artwork, the physical world and the audience. This critical engagement with the viewer elevates the importance of everyday self-education and critical thinking.
Alongside Elvis Richardson and Miranda Samuels, Amy is one third of the art-activist collective The Countess Report. The collective is the go-to resource for statistics and commentary about gender representation in the Australian visual arts sector. Using a data-centric feminist approach Countess generates artworks and analysis that engage with themes of gender, power and value as they operate within the contemporary art ecology.
Amy has exhibited at The Substation, Arts House Meat Market, Arts House North Melbourne, True Estate, First Site Gallery (VIC) and Wellington Street Projects (NSW). With The Countess Report she has exhibited at Campbelltown Arts Centre (NSW) and is a Cultural Partner to Know My Name, National Gallery of Australia (ACT).
Site as Situation
Site as Situation: an impetus toward everyday education and critical thinking takes the format of the Lab and collaborative production to subvert structures of bureaucracy in local government, festivals, biennales or corporate organisations. The project uses the workshop format, alongside text-based prompts and playful interventions in email signatures, desktop computer wallpaper and voicemails to elevate the importance of everyday self-education and critical thinking. The aim of these interventions is to create a legacy around the artwork and interrogate the politics and potential of the commissioning body’s involvement in creative labour.
The project takes stock of the existing work environment and gently challenges its structures in order to make space for education, play and generative thinking in the workplace. The intention is that these paradigms become as integral to the working day as team meetings and water-cooler conversations.
Conscious considerations about who controls the shape of the recent past and the near future are implicit in the project’s thinking. Site as Situation aims to draw attention to latent social, spatial and interpersonal histories that underscore all physical spaces. Through re-framing, and in turn, re-valuing the human and historical interactions that can occur within a workplace, this artwork will prompt employees to consider the way they may use their own agency to intervene in, and preserve, personal, public, environmental and architectural space.