AMY WILSON
Born in Israel, where her grandmother was a potter, and her aunt still is, Amy sees clay as holding many memories; of our ancestors, of the earth. She seeks to evoke these memories in her work. Amy’s work is deeply nostalgic - connecting with an imagined pre-patriarchal past, where the borders between archaeology and fantasy blur - it is both a comforting and liberatory nostalgia.
Amy started working in clay while living in Southern California, close to a decade ago. She had previously worked as an educator, researcher and facilitator, with special interest in the use of dialogic and narrative practices for healing traumatic memory, but when she found clay, she knew she had arrived home. She creates both sculptural and functional forms, coiled or wheel-thrown with layers of adaptation and decoration, so that each object has its own story by the time it is complete.
Currently producing in terracotta, Amy feels rooted when her hands are in the red earth - connecting back to our foremothers, to their hands caked in the same mud.
