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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Civic Action, 2011

 Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York Creative researcher for Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City, a two-part exhibition and catalogue at the Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park exploring community engagement with the Ravenswood waterfront in Queens.

Working under land artist George Trakas, the research traced the waterfront's history through original and archival sources: from quarry, to industry, to the neighbourhood where Mark di Suvero and Isamu Noguchi established their studios in the mid-20th century.

In the archives, I discovered a municipal charter provision designating the waterfront as public space, something that had been forgotten in modern development. That discovery became the foundation for the project's culmination: working with the Army Corps of Engineers to construct a public waterfront park, returning the shoreline to the community it had always legally belonged to.

Project team: George Trakas, Lyn Rice, Astrid Lipka and Amelia Black.