Carragh Amos' practice explores what it means for an object to be handmade.
Amos often experiments with how vessels might tell a human story by representing the body - central to making, process and labour. Personal experiences and emotions are communicated using an intuitive language of forms - intimate moments of artist / object interaction captured in the impressionable material of clay.
Carragh Amos is a New Zealand born artist currently working in Singapore. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (hons) from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand.
Read Amos' interview with Murze contemporary art magazine.
Exhibitions
2019-20 Small Works , Untitled Gallery, Tucson AZ, USA
2019 Open Air , Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2019 50 Squared , Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2019 Antonio Boschi & Marieda di Stefano, Casa Museo Boschi di Stefano, Milan, Italy
2019 100 Postcards, 100 Paces Studio & Gallery, Taiwan
2018 Small, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia
2018 Spectrum, bG Gallery / Gestalt Projectspace, Santa Monica, USA
2018 Circular, bG Gallery / Gestalt Projectspace, Santa Monica, USA
2017 Small Works, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015 Love + Intimacy, In Good Company Space, Wellington, New Zealand
2015 Tactile, In Good Company Space, Wellington, New Zealand
2015 Solo exhibition, Hand Labour, In Good Company Space, Wellington, New Zealand read review
2015 REPEAT REPEAT REPEAT, Matchbox Studios, Wellington, New Zealand
2015 Moana, Mairangi Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
2014 Gift It, In Good Company Space, Wellington, New Zealand
2014 Silent Art Auction, In Good Company Space, Wellington, New Zealand
2014 Collaborative project, Aesthetics City - Design Shanghai, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2013 Collaborative project, Design Shanghai - Shanghai Design Biennale (as part of the Curated Collaborative Student Project), The Powerstation of Art, Shanghai, China
2013 Elam Grad Show - Handmade Aesthetics, Elam School Of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand
2013 Cafespace B431, Projectspace B431, Auckland, New Zealand
2012 </3, Projectspace B431, Auckland, New Zealand
Upcoming Exhibitions
2020 Untitled group ceramic exhibition, Ipoh, Malaysia (June)
Featured Works
2019 Carragh Amos, 51 Hours 22 Hands artist feature, Exclamation! Magazine #4 Winter. 2019.
2019 Conquering Self, GSO Zine festival collaborative zine.
2018 Carragh Amos, Murze Magazine artist feature and interview. Read.
2018 Murze website 'CIRCULAR' gallery feature. View.
2014 Handmade Aesthetics (2013), Elam School of Fine Arts Handbook, Cover
2013/4 Under Green Needles (2012), University of Auckland NICAI Undergraduate Prospectus, p15
Residencies and International Events
2020 (upcoming) 2 week+ 7 day aquagama firing, Ipoh, Malaysia (lead firer Abraham Ling)
2020 (upcoming) 2 week 80hr aquagama firing, Ipoh, Malaysia (lead firer Abraham Ling)
2019 2 week 80hr aquagama firing, Ipoh, Malaysia (lead firer Abraham Ling)
2019 1 week 51hr anagama firing, Ipoh, Malaysia (lead firer Abraham Ling)
2019 2 week collaborative residency, Daly St Studios, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Design Shanghai - Shanghai Design Biennale (as part of the Curated Collaborative Student Project), The Powerstation of Art, Shanghai, China
Workshops
2015 Air Dry Clay Introduction as part of Tactile at In Good Company Space, Wellington, New Zealand
Curatorial Projects
2015 Love + Intimacy curated with Robbie Handcock, featuring The Date Club collective, In Good Company Space, Wellington, New Zealand
Education
2014 BFA Hons first class (interdisciplinary), Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand