The Everyday
BA Textiles in Practice
Manchester School of Art
Amber is an artist, designer and colourist.
Amber’s textile practice focuses on colour, texture and mark-making. Playful, fluid and abstract in her approach, she takes inspiration from the forms, patterns, shapes and colours that she encounters in her day-to-day life. Experimenting with layering, scale and proportion, each quilt, framed and 3D artwork is defined by its own colour palette. Using a range of material processes, Amber works with monoprint, screen-printing, gelli plate printing, dyeing, embroidery and collage to create artworks that capture the joy she experiences through looking and making.
Clockwise from top left: Subject Mundane; React; Energy; Flo
In:Site 2024
Amber was one of 14 artists selected to produce a participatory, drop-in workshop for a public audience at In:Site 2024. Exploring the theme of care, their workshop developed and incorporated the ideas, techniques, approaches and materials used in their own practice.
Photograph by Hayley Salter
Through her project, Mixed Media Collage, which responded to the colour palette and marks made or left by people in the Cathedral, Amber helped people to make paper-based assemblages incorporating collage, stitch and drawing techniques and using layering, scale and proportion to make individual pieces.
Photographs by Hayley Salter
