Collaboration
MJ, the Australian composer and sound artist of Those Who Ride With Giants, and I are collaborating on the final component of The Self Reconciliation Project. I spent two weeks in Western Australia at the end of February 2025 in MJ's studio.
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. The collaboration has been experimental and we are working together to bring my writing, poetry, and research together with music, ceramic elements, landscape sounds, and interviews to create a soundscape spoken-word production.
The first four tracks are ready for the next processes – mixing and mastering.
Track 1: A journey traveled alone
Track 2: The earth speaks
Track 3: Immersion
Track 4: We had a fence
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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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MJ, Those Who Ride With Giants and Avi Amesbury
Wedge 2025
The Australian Ceramics Triennale
2 - 5 October 2025, Fremantle, Western Australia
Wedge 2025 aims to identify and interrogate the increasingly complex interactions between ceramic practice and current ethical, aesthetic, personal, and environmental concerns. The seventeenth Triennale is shaping up to be an exciting programme with delegates from all over the globe presenting papers, giving demonstrations and workshops.
I’ll be presenting my practice led research paper on The Reconciliation Project. The presentation will focus on the residencies undertaken at the Fremantle Art Centre (2022) and Central Craft (2023), the collaboration with composer/sound artist MJ, Those Who Ride With Giants (2025), and the processes involved in creating new work for the exhibition at Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery (BRAG).
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IAC Congress and General Assembly
Mid-2026 (dates to be confirmed)
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 2026 congress will be hosted in Jingdezhen, China. Attendance is open to all ceramic artists from across the globe, so if you are interested, keep an eye here or on the IAC website for updates.
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Avi Amesbury
IAC Council Member Representative for the Oceania Region
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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'.
June 2022