Zoe Amor creates artwork with an aesthetic that is iconic and visionary, drawing on a deep appreciation for the natural world, cultural diversity - ancient and modern - and the architecture of dreams.
Drawn from the deep reservoir of the conscious and unconscious mind, her ongoing project Architecture of a dream is a mothership for visionary compositions and meditations on culturally and ecologically significant microcosms and how creative expression connects us to broader social and ecological circumstances and transitions.
Working across mediums and disciplines, Zoe’s drawings, paintings, prints and sculptures give imagination to evolving ecological and cultural perspectives on all dimensions of life in the soil, waters, space, our bodies and the Earth’s biomes. Her work is also about love - of peaceful, life affirming ways of being in the world and a desire to understand the beneficial connections that exist between humans and other life forms, in the hope that it will (re) generate a deeper appreciation and respect for the natural world.
Zoe has worked extensively in the arts and cultural spheres since obtaining a Bachelor of Arts from La Trobe University in 1999. She has completed numerous public and private commissions and in 2009 she was asked to create a significant commemorative work entitled Dusk for the Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum. Her work is collected for Australian and international galleries, institutions and private collections.
Zoe has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions both in Australia and internationally, including the McClelland Sculpture & Survey Award, Victoria 2012, Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award Victoria 2005, Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney 2006, the Montalto Sculpture Prize, Victoria 2010, the Museum of Contemporary Culture, Hong Kong, 2007, the Phoenix Art Prize, Canberra 2007 Origin: Dunmoochin, Monsalvat 2003, and The Bridge: Construction in Process VI, Melbourne 1998.
Australian artist Zoe Amor lives and works with family in Chewton on Jaara Country, Central Victoria.
'Zoe Amor’s works are otherworldly. Macro/Micro landscapes seemingly unfamiliar yet deeply connected to our conscious and unconscious sense of self. These are works of art where one is encouraged to step aside from the everyday, explore inner realms, states half-remembered and to simply be.' - Linda Sproul & Julian Martyn, Museums Victoria Curator & Architect.