Growing up in Papua New Guinea and regional New South Wales— and immersed in the natural world — forms and shapes around Amber heavily influenced her formative years and how she saw, constructed and remembered the landscape around her.

Says Amber of her work: “Most recently through an exploration of the body, giving birth and motherhood, I found myself directly translating my visceral internal sphere through the landscape I am currently inhabiting in the mountains. Entering into a very primal immediate space, rainy mountains become gushing milk, river gauges become water breaking, multiple breast mountains and openings appear. I’m capturing this immediacy, void of cognitive thought process in my relationship with how I paint, visceral and assertive, an extension of self. An enquiry into ‘being in the world’… a removal of the cognitive self/observer takes place.”