Amy Gogarty is an artist and a writer who lives and works in K'emk'emeláy̓ (land of many maples, i.e. Vancouver, British Columbia). The land on which she lives and works is on the unceded shared traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
She studied Painting at the Alberta College of Art and at the University of Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, receiving her MFA in 1990. For sixteen years, she taught visual art history, theory and the history of Ceramics at ACAD. She moved to Vancouver in 2006, where she works as an independent artist and writer. She has exhibited installations of her paintings across Canada, and she is the author of over one hundred critical essays, reviews or presentations relating to issues arising in visual art and craft practice. Currently, she makes pots, taking them out into city parks and the surrounding countryside, where she paints them plein air using underglaze colours. In October, 2018, she undertook a one-month residency at Medalta, in Medicine Hat, AB. Recently, she has been making compound sculptures, responding to environmental concerns and the global situation so utterly changed by Covid-19. |