Amy Treharne
Lives and works in Swansea
Amy’s work moves between studio based practice that focuses on health, extraction, changing environments or altered states of being and her engagement activity for galleries, museums, and community groups.
I’m currently working with strands of research that seek out the links between planetary and human health. I’m interested in dark spaces, sites of extraction, disused quarries that haven’t been restored as promised and land abandoned to recover quietly. I visit places of archeological importance for healing, making a yearly pilgrimage to a dream incubation temple to think about the body as a resource under capitalism and the role of dream spaces for creativity.
Amy trained in illustration at Cambridge school of art and has worked as an arts educator alongside her practice. She led the education and learning team for Artes Mundi and was Outreach Creative at Mission Gallery. She is an Associate Artist at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, and lectures in contextual studies for Games Design at the University of South Wales.
UNITe 2024
