Amelia Mackay

@hoo_r00_

Amelia Mackay is an Australian artist from the Dhurug and Gundungarra/Blue Mountains region. She primarily works in printmaking and explores non-representational abstraction and material transformation. Deeply engaged with her environment, her artistic practice heavily draws inspiration from the rich bushland she inhabits, the extensive geological processes that span time, and the effects of human agency intervening on the landscape.

Central to Amelia’s creative philosophy is the belief that materials possess agency and memory; she venerates discarded metal, viewing it as both a medium and an active collaborator and holds the status of artworks in their own right. Her interest in archiving patination, oxidation and corrosion allows for an intersection of art and science as she collects surfaces that echo natural textures and layered forms.

Her work uses reclaimed materials such as salvaged copper plates, road signs, and various metal objects found during her practice. This body of work studies themes of decay, renewal and transmutation. She produces ephemeral and unpredictable markings from the metal lifecycle through rudimentary chemical reactions that reverberate geological change and industrial earth scarring.

Amelia’s haphazard compositions are dynamic as she works intuitively, relinquishing control to converse with material. Her prints mirror our ecological entanglement and the inherent impermanence of all matter as the earth reclaims all. Her practice is informed by philosophical inquiries into post-human ecologies, new materialism, and Nietzsche’s concept of becoming, emphasising transformation as an ongoing state of flux.

View the work: Building 16, Building 27, Rayner Hoff Project Space