Biography
Amanda Chambers RWA | MRSS (b. London 1968) is Anglo-Dutch fine artist working primarily in three dimensions.
Her practice, which is based in the U.K. and Japan, explores our proximity to the past, often investigating historical themes of socio-political and environmental conflict.
Academician of the Royal West of England Academy and elected member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in London, Amanda’s work is regularly exhibited and published internationally, in particular in Japan, where she has undertaken extensive projects, residencies and commissions.
Notable commissions have included Japanese Embassy London, Bergen University Norway and Green Legacy Hiroshima Japan.
Her work is held in museum collections in both the U.K. and Japan including The Royal West Of England Academy, Oxford University, Dorset Museum and Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park Museum.
She is an invited participant at the Earth USA conference this autumn where her paper about her journeys discovering unfired clay and earth will be published.
She is currently embarking on a series of conferences, exhibitions and projects in New Mexico, The Netherlands and Japan.
Amanda Chambers was interviewed in 2021 as part of the Japanese Embassy exhibition 'Ash, Ember, Flame'. Amanda was commissioned to produce ceramic sculptures for the exhibition at the Embassy which were fired in collaboration with Oxford University Anagama Kilns. This interview was filmed onsite at the Oxford kilns and in the final exhibition in London. Her work was displayed alongside many professional and amateur makers highlighting the ancient Japanese art of wood fired ceramics.
Amanda Chambers developed a series of ceramic sculptures inspired by the collections at Dorset Museum of the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner and her partner Valentine Ackland. The pieces were exhibited in the newly re-launched galleries at Dorset Museum in 2022, and this video was produced to coincide with the exhibition. These works now form part of the permanent museum collection and can be viewed by appointment.