Amy Parker
Amy Parker’s practice combines research-led enquiry with material experimentation in installation and sculpture, often working in the kiln with glass and ceramics. Driven by the question of how sentiment becomes sediment, her work examines how affect and matter press against and shape one another. She is interested in how worlds are made and unmade through processes of care (and its absence), labour, and relation, and how these dynamics register in material form.
In Kandos, Amy Parker learnt about the now-evaporated, inland Eromanga Sea (extant some time ago), which stretched from Central Australia to Northern Queensland, touching the Capertee Valley. She learnt about how a mineral (calcite), that has organised much of life in this area was formed from compressed marine remains that used to live in the Eromanga Sea. Presented at Cementa, Amy’s works are about her time visiting a potter named Des Howard in nearby Lue (you should visit him too), and an intensely turquoise, anaerobic body of water, coloured by suspended particles of rock, displaced through digging.
