Amanda Kemp is an
Aotearoa New Zealand
Ceramicist who specializes
in wall sculpture.
Harvesting wild uku (clay) from whenua
in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa (Gisborne).
Tools are organic materials.
Stones, driftwood & shells collected from her whenua beach.
These are used to imprint/embody the artwork.
Mahi (work)
RIB of the Taniwha
Stoneware, whenua uku (clay), oxide.
Pōhutukawa fired.
HUIA IN OUR HANDS
Stoneware, bronze, raku-fired.
Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua.
I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on the past.
TE PUNGA
The sky anchor. Raku-fired.
Uku whakaro (carving) representing the Milky Way at the edges.
Tukutuku, flax weaving at the center.
MANAHAU TILES
Raku smoked kurinuku tiles.
Reflecting the vulnerability of our human experience
and the beauty of resilience.
WHENUA PAINTINGS
Whenua wild clay, oxide.
Whakairo (carving) image from Manutuke marae.