AMY WILSON
AMY WILSON
1992-present
Scottish
Isle of Gigha, Scotland
Visual & Performing Arts & Poetry
Amy Wilson is an artist, environmental educator and poet with over 18 years of experience in the UK, Europe and Canada. Her artistic practice is deployed through interdiciplinary collaborative projects that combine sculture, horticulture, installation art and performance.
Her reseach practice currently explores the ways in which practices of care and making can meet across species and island landscapes. Her particular interests fall in investigating the relationships between soil communities on the North West Coasts of Canada and Scotland,
specifically the lifeways of mushrooms and endangered plant species. Her current series of artworks, Edgelands (2019-ongoing) weaves togeather care practices within and across specises, lands and timescapes through plant-based sculptures and gardens, soudscapes (including Gaelic song/poetry) and caretaking performances.
Amy's curitorial work aims to bring togeather artists, makers and designers from island and coastal regions of the world that share in a common care for the ongoing vitality of their unqiue island/coastal ecosystems and cultural hertiages.
As an arts educator Amy has lead community-based artistic and environmenal projects in the UK, Europe and most recently on the North West Coast of Canada. Amy has taken part in artist residencies in both Scotland and Germany and has been involved in the production of several dance and documentary films. Amy is an alumna of the University of Oxford and Simon Fraser University and a member of the Earth Charter International's Learning Network.
Her most recent work was based on the unceaded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ Nations where she representing over 400 Indigenous artists, designers and makers from across British Columbia through her work with one of Canada's leading art galleries specialising in First Nations art.
Amy is currently based on the historic farmland site of North Ardminish on the Isle of Gigha in Scotland where she is the Managing Director of Edgelands Enterprises ltd. a new start-up established in 2024 with the support of the Prince's Trust.
Coming Soon
Made on Gigha Collection: Autumn Winter Series