ABOUT AMBER
Born in 1998, Amber is an artist based in Wiltshire, southern England. Her work revolves around themes of place, belonging, loss and longing. The landscape of the North Wessex Downs, where she grew up, acts as a backdrop and inspiration for much of her work. Its rolling hills, river valleys and long horizons have been home to humanity for thousands of years. The land still bears the marks of this history; stone circles, henges, and long barrows rise out of the earth, and ancient trails and white horses are found etched into the chalk ground.
PRACTICE
Amber’s work is strongly influenced by her background in anthropology. She spent 3 years studying Arts and Sciences at University College London, with a specialism in anthropology.
Her studies allowed her to appreciate the ways in which the pervasive discourse in western society greatly misunderstands and misrepresents human nature. She is now an advocate of the view that solving the greatest issues of our time requires a fundamental shift in the way we perceive ourselves as a species, and our place in the world. As such, her work seeks to re-establish our understanding of ourselves, not as an intrinsically competitive and destructive, but as cooperative, caring, and even critically valuable members of the global ecosystem.
Amber’s work reaches for something essential in us all. Our need for roots, for love, and for community. Our connection to nature and our instinct to nurture the world around us. Its fundamental aim is to strip away the noise, and to allow us to meet ourselves again as we truly are.
EDUCATION
2018-2021 : University College London, BASc Arts and Sciences
First Class Honours
Degree specialism - Anthropology
Further modules - Drawing at The Slade School of Fine Art, Creative Writing, Philosophy, German