Amy Bradnock - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Amy Bradnock’s practice is material-led, grounded in a collaborative dialogue between maker and material. Her work is centred on the ideology of becoming, drawing on theories of materiality and agency that position matter as continually transforming, resisting fixed or static identity.
She embraces the mutability of clay, encouraging it to slump, fold, and collapse, capturing moments where movement is suspended in time. These forms embody a perceivable flux—a fluid knot where past, present, and future intertwine. Within this shifting state, Bradnock creates ambiguity. The softness of her sculptures evokes a bodily presence that exists somewhere between human and organic, blurring boundaries between interior and exterior, self, and other. She enhances this uncertainty through thick, layered glazes in bold, saturated tones that disrupt the familiar, placing the work in a surreal, tentative space, one that resists clear definition and invites a more fluid perception of being.
Through this ongoing exploration of material and form, Bradnock’s practice challenges fixed notions of identity, inviting viewers into transformative spaces where familiar boundaries dissolve and objects exist in constant states of becoming.
