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My Ceramics

In the studio I like to do	Handbuilding, Throwing on the Wheel, Sculpting
Pottery Wheel	Venco
Clay body	Earthenware, Stoneware
Clay Brand	Feeneys BRT, Keanes White Raku, Keanes Raku T, Keanes Stoneware 33
Kiln Atmosphere	Reduction Atmosphere, Oxidation Atmosphere
Temperature	1200, 1300
You can buy my work from	Currently only Via DM on Instagram @finchandfougasse. If you have any recommendations on the best place to sell let me know x

About Me

Introduction	Hi I’m Amy! I’m living & making on Dharawal / Tharawal Country (Sutherland Shire) in Sydney, Australia. I make small scale sculpture as well as handbuilt & thrown decorative & functional ware. I’d love to learn more about how ceramics helps communities and or how to start an arts co-op.
What I Love about Ceramics	I love that there are no guarantees with ceramics. It helps me make for the sake of doing and not be attached to outcome. It also just makes me feel good!
How I started with ceramics	20 years ago I took Ceramics as a subject in an art course but it wasn’t the right material for me at the time. About 10 years ago I started to think about ceramics a lot and finally went to a class. I’ve now been handbuilding for 4 years and throwing for just a few months.
What inspires me	I am inspired by symbolism, mythology, archetype’s, mysticism, inner strength, ancestry & bloodlines, nature, feminism & Country Style Magazine (Australian Edition) as I like stories about creative, strong women who live on the land.
What I'm working on at the moment	– A collection of bowls and platters with illustrations of women who have grown wings. – Experimenting with a sort of ceramics collage
My Artist Statement	Amy-Rose Finch is currently living and working on Dharawal Country in the Sutherland Shire. Amy was raised in Mt Druitt, Western Sydney and has been a practicing visual artist since 1998. A past student of the now closed Contemporary Arts School at UWS she worked predominately with drawing, mixed media & contemporary installations. Now working exclusively with ceramics, Amy’s work explores the themes of trauma, loss, survival, transformation and the magic found in the parts of ourselves that can never be erased.