AMELIA BATCHELOR
Amelia Batchelor is a multidisciplinary artist, working with a host of contrasting mediums within her sculptures and paintings. With 30 years of experience, she works full-time in her Northern Rivers studio, a place which fuels her creative spirit and her inspiration for the environment. Amelia’s recent works have emerged through the exploration of natural history illustration and using recycled materials. Amelia’s thoughtfulness and consideration is apparent for nature with a cross pollination of magical curiosity. Her approach to all aspects of visual art and sculpture design is to produce her works with integrity and artistic speculation.
Horizon Gate
On walking through the archway curtain of plastic, Amelia Batchelor aims to transport the viewer to a new realisation and recognition of our now plastic world, the challenges ahead, and a renewed hope. She envisions a new generation of innovators and solution-makers shining a light on our waste problems, prompting a fresh introspection of possible future outcomes. By framing and momentarily restricting our view, this installation allows us to ground ourselves and see the intersection of sky, ocean, and earth, inviting contemplation of our place within the environment and the impact we have on it.
Can you describe your creative process from concept to completion?
Looking back through my notebooks, sketches and crazy scribbles is usually the start, then the process of inventing, connecting and problem solving creates the structure and form. It is hard to explain… I just love to play and let the work find its way and when it all comes together, it’s pure joy!
Where do you look for inspiration? What themes do you find most interesting?
My designs and artworks are always nature inspired. The environment around me has always influenced the way I work and I am continually sketching and making diagrams of ideas that come to me. I like working with discarded things, reinventing or reshaping and inventing with connections of objects.
How do you feel when you see people interacting with your sculptures?
Creating 3D pavement art, murals and sculpture works over the past 20 years has been the driving force of my arts practice. Seeing your work being interacted and played with makes everybody happy.
Come and see for yourself at SWELL Sculpture Festival, Pacific Parade, Currumbin 6th – 15th September.