Natasha Harth Photography
Collaboration
MJ, the Australian composer and sound artist behind Those Who Ride With Giants, and I have collaborated on the final component of The Self Reconciliation Project. I spent two weeks at MJ's studio in Western Australia in February 2025, followed by a second visit in September.
Storytelling has become a focus of the project over the course of its development, and I have been exploring the use of different media to tell the story. This experimental collaboration involved combining my writing, poetry and research with music, ceramic elements and landscape sounds to create a spoken-word soundscape production.
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Track 1: A journey traveled alone
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Track 8: Shifting perspective
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Collaboration MJ, Those Who Ride With Giants (2025)
AIR, Central Craft (2023)
AIR, Fremantle Art Centre (2022)​​​
The collaboration is supported
by the Regional Arts Development Fund
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Composer and sound artist MJ, Those Who Ride With Giants, and Avi Amesbury. Image: Ivana Girard Photographer
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery 2026
The Self Reconciliation Project Exhibition
24 April - 11 July, 2026.
​Through ceramics and storytelling The Self Reconciliation Project uses the narrative of a settler descendant (moi) to see, understand and reconcile the injustices of settler history in Australia.
The project grew out of researching 100 years of my family's history. As one of the first settler families to arrive in Western Australia's wheatbelt, we were given land lots while the Noongar Ballardong people of the area were driven out. As a settler descendant, the project examines my own past and my journey towards knowledge and reconciliation.
My research brings together two lines of inquiry – examining family history in relation to politics, race, community attitudes and the laws of the time (an internal lens); and exploring connection to place through immersion in the Australian landscape (an external lens).
The exhibition presents new work inspired by the residencies undertaken at the Fremantle Art Centre (2022) and Central Craft (2023), and the collaboration with composer/sound artist MJ from Those Who Ride With Giants (2025). The exhibition will use ceramics, mixed media and the spoken-word/soundscape production as storytelling devices.
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Collaboration MJ, Those Who Ride With Giants (2025)
AIR, Central Craft (2023)
AIR, Fremantle Art Centre (2022)​​​
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IAC Congress and General Assembly
27 June - 20 July, 2026.
Every two years, the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) organises an international congress, which includes a conference on a specific theme, national and international exhibitions, cultural tours, and private initiatives by galleries and other cultural institutions. The IAC Congress stimulates cultural activities in the host country and fosters new relationships between institutions, thus contributing in a tangible way to the development and promotion of ceramic art, globally.
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The 52nd Congress of the International Academy of Ceramics, Ceramics: Heritage and Innovation, will be hosted in Jingdezhen, China in 2026. Attendance is open to all ceramic artists from across the globe, so if you are interested, visit IAC website.
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Avi Amesbury
IAC Council Member and Representative for the Oceania Region (2024-2030)
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NEWS
December 2024
Collaboration
MJ, Those Who Ride With Giants
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MJ, Australian composer and sound artist, and I are collaborating on the final component of The Self Reconciliation Project.
Over the course of the project storytelling has become a focus and I’ve been exploring the use of different media to tell the story.
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​My ambition for the collaboration is for it to be experimental.
November 2023
The Self Reconciliation Project (May and June 2023)
As artist-in-residence at Central Craft in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) I continued to explore the notion of self reconciliation.
The project investigated connection to 'place' through the Australian landscape (an external lens) which aims to bring together these two lines of perspectives - family history and connection to 'place'.
July 2025