Amelia Black
Amelia Black is a ceramic researcher, material artist and writer/facilitator based on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country, Naarm/Melbourne. Her practice centres material provenance, landscape as story, and the ethics of extraction. Her work seeks to relate with material and place to build accountability and relationality into the act of making.


Selected Work

Biography

This practice takes place on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past and present, and acknowledge the ongoing relationship between Country, clay, making and storytelling.






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Amphibious Architecture, 2009

 The Architecture League of New York Toward the Sentient City Exhibition

A floating interactive installation in New York's East River and Bronx River, developed by xClinic (NYU) and The Living (GSAPP). Two networks of sensor-equipped tubes monitored water quality and fish presence below the surface, while lights above responded in real time — creating feedback loops between humans, fish, and their shared environment. An SMS interface allowed citizens to text-message the fish and receive live river data.

The project established a two-way interface between land and water, making visible the invisible ecology of people, marine life, and public space.

Amelia Black participated as a Research Fellow at Natalie Jeremijenko's Environmental Health Clinic (xClinic), NYU.‘
The Architecture League of New York installation image, 2009