Amber Hearn

Engaging with notions of the feminine, birth, motherhood, and embodiment, Amber Hearn's work emerges from personal history while remaining connected to a more universal, collective reading. The recurring vessel form operates as both body and space within the works, not just as containers but as sites of shelter held within the body itself. Positioned within shifting landscapes and interior frameworks, they act as a stand-in for the body while also suggesting what it carries. Drawing from domestic and ceremonial references, they function as abstracted self-portraits, holding memory, emotion, and lived experience as they move through the spaces they inhabit.

Says Hearn, "When making these works, I experienced myself move as a mirror, both in scale and form, pushing and spilling into the canvas as I brought the forms to life. Searching to find a balance between tension and spaciousness, breathing space and moments of noise, I utilise the landscape or interior to explore more personal narratives, memories, and experiences, allowing them to take form in the works, often through a process of creation and destruction, with layers upon layers taking place in each piece."