About

A visual artist with a diverse practice that encompasses photography and printmaking, processional and outdoor arts and light-based works. I like to work with layers of imagery, texture and meaning and am inspired by people and communities and their shared spaces, histories and folklore. Since rekindling my photographic practice in 2018 after a long period mainly working in 3-D, I have been exploring the intersection of digital technology and traditional craftsmanship. Blending digital negatives and alternative photographic processes with botanical elements, textiles, and printmaking techniques my work explores the boundaries between the digital and the handmade with a playful sense of wonder. 

With over a decade of experience in socially-engaged arts my practice often has a participatory element; collaborating with communities to explore how creative processes can facilitate personal and social growth and change. I have particular experience in working with women, mothers and children and much of my work and research explores the links between maternity and creativity; motherhood as a generative, creative space and the innate, natural creativity of childhood.

Amy is a founding Director of Lamplighter Arts CIC, a Bristol-based artist-led community organisation bringing together diverse communities to tell visual stories and unite communities through inclusive interactive and after dark lantern events. Lamplighter Arts work includes the design and production of large-scale lantern and carnival events/parades across the UK and internationally including BUMP, Bristol City Centre 2022; Church Road Lantern Parade 2015 - 2023; Glastonbury Festival Greenfields Opening Ceremony 2022 - 2025 and a spectacular finale to the inaugural Govandi Arts Festival, Mumbai, 2023 - the flagship project of the Brtitish Council’s UK/India Together Season of Culture. Lamplighter Arts design and deliver public and community art projects with a heritage focus including Old City Spirits Flags 2021, Bristol and Irish In Bristol 2024 which used processional arts to explore Irish Diasporic memory.

MA Artist Teacher Practice

Enhanced DBS and £5m PLI