About

Amy-Jo Jory is a Melbourne based artist, writer and curator from Aotearoa, New Zealand. For the past two decades, her practice has involved sound, video and sculptural installation, endurance performance, writing, and ceramics.

Exhibiting widely across Australia and New Zealand, she has also been a Board Member and Curator at Artist Run Initiatives Seventh Gallery and Little Woods Gallery (now closed) in Melbourne (AU), and Blue Oyster Gallery in Dunedin (NZ).

Gaining a Masters of Fine Art by Research from the Victorian College of the Arts, she has been the recipient of postgraduate scholarships and prizes. Her work is held in the Vulcan Steel Collection and private collections worldwide, and she is a current member of re::set sound collective. She is employed as a Lecturer at RMIT and Swinburne, teaching across Fine Art, Media, and Interior Design.

The steely blue murk of a swollen river; yellowed lace curtains; the hollow sound of steel on wood; forks on plates; the drone of fridges in the night. I hoard these clichés like broken bone china. These clichés are like friends, they are family.

I am compelled by the intersections between gender, sexuality, class, and institutional power. Speaking to a long feminist history of connecting personal narratives with broader political and social structures – my work is a kind of ontology of the self, implementing my life experiences as an art making strategy.