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.
Design Smells: Odorous Rhetoric for Embodied Experience
Master of Fine Arts Thesis, School of Visual Arts, New York, 2010A design criticism thesis examining smell as an overlooked medium of communication in designed experience. Through five case studies — from Jorge Otero-Pailos' olfactory reconstruction of Philip Johnson's Glass House to Natalie Jeremijenko's Feral Robotic Dogs sniffing pollution along the Bronx River — the thesis argues for a working vocabulary through which to engage the role of scent in shaping our emotional, psychological and memorial experience of the designed world.
"Smell accesses within ourselves powerful and embodied meanings, associations and feelings that unlike the other more cerebral senses are restricted by words."
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