Watson creates colourful and playful sculptures using delicate hand-stitching of segments of finely cut balsa wood to create geometric forms. She also uses helium balloons, glow-in-the-dark pigments and glitter which cause the sculptures to wobble, spin, glisten, and levitate. There is the presence of a childlike ater ego in the work, suggetsing a subtle sense of nostolgia for the joys of childhood play and a way of seeing mystery and possibility in everything. The imagined worlds of childhood are transcribed through the adult patience and refinement of her painstaking production methods.
Read MoreBorn in Adelaide in 1987, Amy grew up in Belair, South Australia. She received a scholarship to study at Adelaide Central School of Art in 2005. Graduating in 2008, Amy completed a Bachelor of Visual Art with Honours majoring in sculpture and painting.
Amy has shown in various solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia including a solo at West Space in Melbourne in 2012 and a solo exhibition at GRANTPIRRIE Gallery 2 in Sydney in 2011. In 2011 she also had a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Space of South Australia’s Project Space, which was featured on ABC News, 7.30 SA. Amy exhibited a major sculptural work in Heartland an exhibition of South Australian artists at the Art Gallery of South Australia in June – August 2013. Amy undertook a two-month studio residency at Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin Germany at the end of 2009 and since graduating has been successful in winning several CARCLEW Project and Development Grants, Helpmann Project Support Grants, Arts SA grants and was awarded the 2012 CARCLEW Youth Arts Ruth Tuck Scholarship which supported Amy while she undertook a 3-month studio residency at ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program) in Brooklyn, New York in mid 2012. Amy was successful in winning an Australia Council for the Arts Tokyo Studio Residency, which she will take up early 2014.
Most recently, Amy was the recipient of the Qantas Foundation Encouragement Art Award (South Australia). She has received international recognition winning the 3rd Ward Brooklyn Open Call Early Entry Prize (USA) and having her work featured on the front cover of Rooms Magazine, London, Issue 6. Amy was a finalist in the 2011 and 2012 Channel Nine Young Achiever of the Year Coffee Club Arts Award and won the 2011 Adelaide Critics Circle Contemporary Art Award. Amy won the Core Energy Group Sculpture Award and the SAlife Emerging Artist Award for the 2009 SALA Festival. Amy currently resides in Adelaide, South Australia and works out of Fontanelle studios, Bowden.
