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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Trace Sediments, 2025

shadows recorded along the Merri Creek in Naarm/Melbourne

Available for purchase at Craft Victoria

Clay, weathered rock, is formed across geological time. Shadows are cast in mere moments — capturing the exact form of a tree and the specific angle of the sun at a particular hour. My practice brings these vastly different timescales onto the same surface.

Working with Australian terracotta, I burnish each form with terra sigillata made from the same material, then project shadows collected from the surrounding landscape onto the surface. Using water, I patiently etch away layers of clay, inscribing ephemeral traces of light onto a material shaped by geological time.

The resulting work holds both: the slow transformation of stone into clay into ceramic, and the transient shadows that anchor each piece to a specific time and place.


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Photography by May C Armstrong, Craft Victoria 2025