Visall Photography
Exhibition
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery
Shifting Perspectives: The Self Reconciliation Project
Runs from 27 April to 11 July, 2026.
Official Opening: Friday 1 May, 5:30pm
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Shifting Perspectives: The Self Reconciliation Project draws on the Avi Amesbury’s practice-led research during her residencies at the Fremantle Arts Centre in Western Australia and Central Craft in Mparntwe /Alice Springs, and her collaboration with the composer and sound artist, MJ, from Those Who Ride With Giants.
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As one of the first settler families to arrive in Western Australia’s wheatbelt in 1907, Amesbury’s family were granted land lots while the Noongar Ballardong people of the area were driven out. The Self Reconcilliation Project is an examination of the artist’s past, revealing the illusory nature of her learned history.
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A descendant of settlers, Amesbury presents her personal journey towards truth-telling and truth-sharing. It is about the notion of self reconciliation— confronting truths and acknowledging the past. It is about listening, hearing, and understanding the impact of her family’s settlement on the First Nations people.
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Ceramics, soundscapes, and mixed media are used to convey a narrative of shifting perspectives.​
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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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Workshop
Artist to Artist: Professional Development with Avi Amesbury
Saturday 23 May 2026, 9am to 4pm
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In association with my solo exhibition, Shifting Perspectives: The Self Reconciliation Project, at the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, I have been asked to facilitate a professional development workshop.
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It is a great initiative for BRAG to draw on the expertise of artists navigating the essentials in building an arts practice. The workshop will blend my experience in strategic planning with my ceramic practice.
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The workshop offers practical tips, real-world strategies and a space to reflect on your own direction amongst fellow artists. Through conversation and hands-on exercises, you’ll map your goals, sharpen your professional approach and walk away with greater clarity, confidence and momentum alongside a community of creative peers.
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Workshop: Details and bookings​​​​
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Collaboration
Composer and sound artist MJ, Those Who Ride With Giants, and Avi Amesbury. Image: Ivana Girard Photographer
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've 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.
​Full play list: Portfolio Collaboration
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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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The collaboration is supported by the
Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF).
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Exhibition
28 June to 27 August, 2026.
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​Inheritance and Innovation is co-curated by Luke Li Chao and Zhang Jinjing and is presented in association with the 52nd Congress and General Assembly of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC). The exhibition explores the dialogue between tradition and innovation in ceramics and considers its cultural, economic and technological relevance in the modern era.
My work for the exhibition draws on a series of pieces from the upcoming exhibition at the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery. It explores our heritage and inherited culture through landscape.
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The 52nd Congress of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC)
Ceramics: Inheritance and Innovation,
27 June to 2 July 2026, Jingdezhen, China.
Information: IAC website.
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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