Amanda Bromfield
Amanda Bromfield CV
Amanda is an emerging artist working on Bundjalung land
Studies
2024 European Travel
2023 Artist Residency Aviario Studios Portugal
2023 Overseas travel. On leave from teaching
2022 Ceramics teacher Murrwillumbah Tafe NSW
2020 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
2020 National Art School, Intensive Wheel Throwing
2018 National Art School, Sydney, Masters in Fine Art (Ceramics) Stage 2
2017 National Art School, Sydney, Masters in Fine Art (Ceramics) Stage 1
2015 The Australian National University, Canberra, Post Graduate Certificate in Visual Arts (Hons in Ceramics)
2012 Northern Rivers TAFE, Lismore. Diploma in Ceramics
2011 Northern Rivers TAFE, Lismore. Diploma in Fine Arts
2010 Northern Rivers TAFE, Lismore. Certificate 4 in Visual Arts
2009 Northern Rivers TAFE, Lismore. Certificate 3 in Visual Arts
1988 University of Canberra, Bachelor of Arts in Communications
1983 University of NSW, Bachelor of Arts - Diploma of Education
Solo Exhibitions
2024 The Women of Hill End, Hill End Art Gallery
2024 The Women of Hill End, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2023 The Women of Hill End, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2021 The Nun in the Night Gown. Brigid Partridge, a woman who had enough. Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
2019 Australian Ceramics Open Studios
2019 Hey, Listen Up, Lismore Regional Art Gallery
2017 Temple of Fashion, Canberra Potter's Society, Watson
2017 Who Are You? Installation, Byron Shire Council. The Cube, Mullumbimby
2016 Gone Girl, Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina
2016 Damn Whores and God's Police, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, Lismore
2016 Bluestocking, Northern Rivers Community Art Gallery, Ballina
2016 Cool Cockies, Club Mullum, Mullumbimby
2014 Menagerie, Northern Rivers Community Art Gallery, Ballina
2013 Rococolossal, Northern Rivers Community Art Gallery, Ballina
2013 Girl Power - No CSG, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, Lismore
Group Exhibitions
2025 Forest of Koalas, Byron Bay Primary School
2024 Hannah Halle, Lismore Regional Art Gallery
2024 Clay Matters 2, Linden Projects
2022 Clay Matters, Slow Clay Centre, Collingwood
2022 Elemental, Ceramic Arts QLD Members Exhibition, Brisbane Arts Institute
2022 North Coast Potters Exhibition, Byron Bay Writer's Festival
2022 North Queensland Ceramic Awards, Townsville
2022 Birds 2, Gallery 3, Byron Bay
2022 Australiana, The Jam Factory, Adelaide
2021 The Artists of Hill End, Hill End Art Gallery
2021 North Coast Potters Exhibition, Byron Writers Festival
2021 HOTA, QLD
2021 Murrwillumbah Artists Trail, Murwillumbah
2020 Clay: Thick and Thin, M Arts, Tweed Regional Gallery
2020 The Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize, Lismore Regional Gallery
2020 Artisan, Bowen Hills, Brisbane
2020 Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2020 BAM Art Prize, Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina
2020 Wild Things, Mist Gallery, Cabarita Beach
2020 Pots for Potters, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown
2020 Tom Bass Sculpture Prize, Paddington
2020 Bushfire Fundraiser, Byron Art Magazine
2020 Clay For Australia, TACA
2019 Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2019 Numero Uno, M Gallery, Murwillumbah
2019 Facade, Tweed Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah
2018 Birds, Maunsellwickes Gallery, Paddington
2018 Released Class of 2018, MFA Post Graduate Exhibition. National Art School, Darlinghurst
2018 Lismore Regional Art Gallery, Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize, Lismore Regional Gallery
2018 YOLKS, The Bearded Tit, Redfern
2017 We're Closer Than You Think, Art State NSW. Lismore Art State Conferrence, Lismore
2016 Gold Coast Potter's Association Members Exhibition, Southport
2016 Stuck In The Mud, Verge Gallery
2016 30th Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Awards
2016 Contemporary Porcelain, Kerry Lowe Gallery, King St, Newtown
2016 North Queensland Ceramic Awards, Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville
2015 Christmas Exhibition, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, King St, Newtown
2015 Spring Exhibition, Art Piece Gallery, Mullumbimby
2015 The Australian Ceramics Association Triennial Exhibition - BeLonging, ANU School of Art, Canberra
2014 Coraki Art Show, Coraki
2014 Brisbane Grammar School Art Show, Brisbane
2014 The Australian Ceramics Association Biennial Exhibition. The Course Of Objects - The Fine Lines of Inquiry, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly
2014 Winner Sculpture Award. The Byron Bay Arts Classic, Byron Bay
2013 Winner Peoples Choice Award.Gold Coast Potter's Association Member's Exhibition, Benowa
2013 The TACA - Vicki Grima Encouragement Award. Gold Coast Potter's Association Member's Exhibition, Benowa
2013 Sculpture in the Trees, Federal
2013 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra
2013 The Wilson Art Prize, Lismore
2013 PAN Exhibition, Lone Goat Gallery, Byron Bay
2013 Let them Eat Cake, Art in the Heart, Lismore
2012 All fired Up, TAFE, Diploma of Ceramics Graduate Exhibition, Lismore
2012 Coraki Art Show, Coraki
2011 Oeuvre, TAFE, Diploma of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition, Lismore
2010 Northern Rivers Portrait Prize, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore
Workshops and Artist Talks
2025 The Australian Ceramics Association - Wedge Ceramic Conference, Fremantle
2025 Forest of Koalas, Byron Bay Primary School
2024 Hand building and tiles, Aviario Studios Portugal
2023 Schools Program, Ballina City Council Flood Initiative
2023 Summer School, Murrwillumbah TAFE
2021 The Nun in the Night Gown, Wagga Regional Art Gallery
2019 Hey, Listen Up Artist Talk and Workshop. Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore
2018 Introduction to Clay Children's Workshop. Mahan Art Centre, Parramatta
2017 Ceramics - a class for women. Cliff Murray Lane Studio, Lennox Head
2016 Artist Talk, Canberra Potter's Society, Watson
2016 Handbuilding and Throwing, Canberra Potter's Society, Watson
2016 Encounters Workshop (Sprung), Lennox Head
2016 Gone Girl Artist Talk, NRCG Ballina
2016 North Coast Mud Trail, Lennox Head
2016 Stuck in The Mud Artist Talk, Verge Gallery
2016 Damned Whores and God's Police Artist Talk, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore
2016 Cake and Clay - clay making classes for adults. Amanda Bromfield Studio, Lennox Head
2015 Rococo Girls, The Drawing Room, Ballina
2013 Rococo Girls and Baroque Beauties, Northern Rivers Pottery, Lismore
2013 Sculpting and Ceramics, Year 9, Xavier Catholic College, Skennars Head
2013 Sculpting and Ceramics , Year 11, Xavier Catholic College, Skennars Head
2015 Kil.n.it Experimental Ceramics Studios, Glebe Point Rd, Glebe
2013 School Holiday Ceramics, The Drawing Room, Ballina
Residencies
2025 Byron Bay Primary School K-6
2023 Aviario Studios, Portugal
2021 Hill End Artist Residency, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2016 Canberra Potter's Association, Watson
2015 Kil.n.it. Experimental Ceramics Studios, Glebe Point Rd, Glebe
Collections & Acquisitions
2023 Hill End Art Gallery and Historical Trust, The Women of Hill End Collection
2022 Riverina Museum, Wagga Wagga, The Nun in the Nightgown Collection
2021 The Australian Ceramics Association, Determination and Optimism
2021 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Annie Groats
2020 Lismore Regional Gallery, Girl Power - No SCG
2017 Lismore Regional Gallery, Damned Whores and God's Police
2017 Canberra Potter's Society, Temple of Fashion
Mentoring
2023 Working with young people with disabilities
2022 Working with young people with disabilities
2019 Working with Clay, with those with, disabilities. DSA, Camperdown, Sydney
2015 Working with Clay, with those with, disabilities. DSA, Camperdown, Sydney
2013 Yr 12 HSC Art Students, Xavier Catholic College, Skennars Head
Volunteer
2020 Board of Directors, The Australian Ceramics Association
2019 Board of Directors, The Australian Ceramics Association
2019 Ceramics teacher, Matthew Talbot, Wooloomooloo
2018 Board of Directors, The Australian Ceramics Association
2017 Internship, Alaska Projects Art Gallery, Potts Point
2008 - 2013 Northern Rivers Community Art Gallery, Ballina
Curator
2022 @fireupforlismore, #fireupforlismore Social media fundraising platform for victims of the SE Queensland and Northern Rivers floods.
2020 Lennox Ceramics, Lennox Head
2009 Northern Rivers Landscape Prize, The Rivers of Life, Ballina Community Art Gallery, Ballina
Memberships
Ceramic Arts Queensland
Gold Coast Potters Association
The Australian Ceramics Association
NGNSW
Lismore Regional Gallery
The Tweed Regional Art Gallery
Friends of the Koala
Bangalow koalas
Selected Biography
Amanda Bromfield, pp 90-93. Alana Wilson. Byron Arts Magazine. Issue 20. September 2021
Amanda Bromfield. Army of One. pp 38-41. The Journal of Australian Ceramics Vol 60 No 1. April 2021
18 January 2017 The Byron Shire Echo, Vol 31#32, The Community, The Art Cube, p55
The Canberra Potter. http://www.canberrapotters.com.au/nltr_pdfs/cps_news_dec16.pdf
Verandah Magazine http://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/amanda-bromfields-gone-girl-exhibition/
28 September 2016 Ballina Advocate. Artist is Addressing Domestic Violence Article p5
Lennox Wave Magazine http://lennoxwave.com/2016/09/gone-girl/
Tenterfield Star Newspaper http://www.tenterfieldstar.com.au/story/4133431/northern-rivers-whores-
and-gods-police-exhibition-sheds-light-on-modern-womanhood/?cs=1010
10 August 2016. Ballina Advocate Newspaper, Things can get 'ugly' on mud trail p28
Lennox Wave Magazine http://lennoxwave.com/2016/08/amanda-bromfield-ms-aug-16/
Contemporaries https://contemporaries.com.au/2016/07/14/member-profile-sharne-wolff/
February 26 2016 Six and a Half Questions/Glenn Barkley. In The Art Life by Sharne Wolff http://theartlife.com.au/2016/six-and-a-half-questions-glenn-barkley/?
April 2014 Vol 53 No 1, The Journal of Australian Ceramics."The Course of Objects: The Fine Lines of Inquiry". pp 63 - 101
December 2013 Issue No 94, Ceramics Art and Perception (International)." Axis of Passion. The Creative World of Amanda Bromfield" p 84
Dec 2013 The Clay Pen, Gold Coast Potter's Association. Members Exhibition 2013.
http://australianceramics.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/gold-coast-potters-association-annual-exhibition-2013/
Nov 2013 The Journal or Australian Ceramics. Vol 52 No 3 p144
1.11.2013 The Art Almanac, The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2013
25.10.2013 The Art Life 2.0, The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2013
11.10.2013 The Art Life, New Work Friday #144. "Amanda Bromfield"
Oct/Nov Australian Ceramics - In Touch, "Presidents Report"
October 2013 The Lennox Wave 110, "Miniatures with a Twist" p 8
18.09.2013 The Ballina Advocate, "Amanda into Art Finals" p 24
July 2013 The Journal of Australian Ceramics 522, p 44
16.01.13 Northern Star, " Word on TAFE"
17.01.13 Northern Rivers Echo, " Artist in Window of Opportunity"
Website
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