Master of Fine Art School of Fine Art
Amber Jones
Amber is a multidisciplinary artist specialising in sculpture and ceramics based in Northumberland and Glasgow. Her practice often involves collaborating with scientists, community members, and fellow artists to learn collectively from the rapidly changing ecosystems we inhabit.
Her work deals with the climate crisis in an attempt to synthesise data into a visual language, believing artists can create and interact in ways beyond reshaping tangible and intangible structures. Art is her method of protest. Her practice is an open dialogue with audience and space, leading to dynamic and ever-evolving relationships building on her belief that art should benefit society and expand the audience’s awareness, sowing the seed for a growing holistic and collective response to the climate crisis.
Her most recent work focuses on tension points, realised through her use of materiality, embodied in her ceramic and fabric installation works, becoming abstract representations activated through their display.
Tension Points
Polarities and finding common ground became the catalyst for this year’s work, building upon my work under the microscope and echoed in my ceramic forms Tipping Point No.1-9.
Tension Points is the result of division and separation at a cellular level, playing with ideas of malleability, permanence and the fragility of the climate crisis. The abstract form highlights the black-and-white nature of these conversations and that if you look closely enough, common ground is there through the disparities.
Tipping Point No.1-9
These works are the culmination of research undertaken as part of a study into artists and environmental practices exploring regenerative agriculture, social and political environments and the vibrancy of collectivism, raising questions about engagement and the importance of ecological understanding across the UK.
