Avi Amesbury is a ceramic artist and arts administrator. Her current exhibition work uses the vessel form to explore the meeting place between land and sea, and is inspired by the landscape on the far south coast of New South Wales, Australia.

Amesbury’s current practice-led research, The Self Reconciliation Project, re-examines her own ‘white’ history and her place within it, and focuses on the notion of self reconciliation in relation to politics, community attitudes and the laws of the times.

As artist-in-residence at the Fremantle Art Centre (2022) Amesbury focused on the notion of self reconciliation through research into her own family history (an internal lens). As one of the first settler families arriving in Quairading in Western Australia they were given land-lots while the Noongar-Ballardong people of the region were driven out.

As artist-in-residence at Central Craft in 2023 Amesbury continued to explore the notion of self reconciliation and investigated connection to ‘place’ through the Australian landscape (an external lens).

A final component of The Reconciliation Project is a collaboration with composer and sound artist, MJ Callaghan – Those Who Ride With Giants – to explore sound and the spoken word. The collaboration draws on Amesbury’s research from her residencies in Fremantle and Alice Springs.

Read: aviamesbury.com.au/post/the-self-reconciliation-project-2022