Biography

Avi Amesbury received a Bachelor of Arts (Visual), with Honours in ceramics from the Australian National University(ANU) School of Art in 2002. She was awarded a scholarship in 2000 through the ANU International Exchange Program and undertook studies at Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Her work has been selected in national and international exhibitions and has won a number of awards.

Most recently Amesbury's work was selected for the 2008 Gold Coast International Ceramics Award exhibition and and has been exhibited in the 2008 Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramic Award exhibition, presented at the 2007 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Conference in the United States and at the New Craft Future Voices International Craft Conference in Scotland. She is represented in the permanent collections of the Gold Coast City Art Gallery and Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery and is in private collections in Australia, Japan, Republic of Korea and the United States of America.

Amesbury has curated a number of exhibitions including Essence of structure, an ANU group alumni exhibition; Smoke Free Zone, held in association with the international Gundaroo Woodfire Conference; Impact, a survey exhibition of Canberra and region artists presented by the Canberra Potters' Society at Verge, 11th National Ceramics Conference; and co-curated Valency: Combining creative processes presented as part of the 2005 Science Week Festival.2005

Amesbury maintains a personal website, www.avicam.com, that represents national and international ceramic artists and she edits and publishes the electronic newsletter, www.ceramicsthismonth.com. She has been involved in the development of a number of websites and online projects. Avi Amesbury is currently Communications Manager at Craft Australia where she is developing the Craft Australia Online Research Centre, is the editor of the monthly newsletter 716, and manages the development of the Craft Australia website.