Education
2020 Masters of Arts Management, RMIT University, Melbourne
2006 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Honours, RMIT University, Melbourne
2005 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), RMIT University, Melbourne
2003 Diploma of Art (Ceramics), Box Hill Institute of TAFE, Melbourne
Awards and Grants
2023 Banyule Arts & Culture Grant, The Going Deeper Art Exhibition
2019 Australia Council for the Arts, Career Development Grant
2015 First Prize, Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition
2013 Australia Council for the Arts, New Work (Early Career) Grant
2012 Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant
2011 Emerging Maker Award, International Ceramics Festival, Wales, Finalist
2010 Emerging Artist Award, Clunes Ceramic Award
2008 Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists
2005 Jeremy Dillon Photography Award, Fresh at Craft Victoria
2004 Banyule/La Trobe University Young Artist Award
2004 Smorgon Steel Contemporary Art Prize, 3D Award
Collections
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of South Australia
Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne
Bendigo Art Gallery
Warrnambool Art Gallery
City of Whitehorse, Melbourne
Box Hill Institute of TAFE, Melbourne
European Ceramic Work Centre, The Netherlands
Baer Art Center, Hofsos, Iceland
The Lyn Baines Collection
The David & Judith Rofe Collection, Bemboka
Private Collections Australia and overseas
Residencies
2019 Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan
2016 Baer Art Center, Hofsos, Iceland
2012 Anderson Ranch Arts Centre, Colorado, USA
2008 European Ceramic Work Centre, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Commissions
2020 Barangaroo, Crown Sydney
2020 Private Commission, Melbourne
Exhibitions
2023 Relinquishing Control, Skepsi @ Malvern Artists' Society Gallery, Melbourne
2023 The Going Deeper Exhibition, 33 Artists, Art + Writing, Loft 275, Ivanhoe Library & Cultural Hub, Victoria
2023 A Gift of Fire, a showcase of ceramics in Banyule, Gallery 275, Ivanhoe Library & Cultural Hub, Victoria
2022 Sage Advice to the Serious Young Artist, Whitehorse Artspace, Box Hill, Victoria
2021 Wandering within an accumulation of short lines, Amy Kennedy & Ariel Gout, Craft, Melbourne
2021 The Big Tree & Other Landscapes from The Whitehorse Art Collection, Deakin University Art Gallery, Burwood
2021 Amy Kennedy - On Closer Inspection, Skepsi @ Malvern Artists' Society Gallery, Melbourne, with Tania Rollond
2020 The Sound of Blue, Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW
2020 Raw: The Endless Potential of Clay, Post Office Gallery, Bendigo
2019 Gifted 2019, Skepsi @ Malvern Artists’ Society Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Side Effect, Onespace Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland
2019 Layered, Skepsi @ Malvern Artists’ Society Gallery, Melbourne, with Kevin Boyd & Colin Hopkins
2019 Presenters Exhibition, Australian Ceramics Triennale, Hobart, Tasmania
2019 Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Gallery of The Institute of Ceramic Studies, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan
2019 Things of Clay, Stone & Wood, Whitehorse Artspace, Box Hill, Victoria
2018 45th Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook NSW
2018 Women in the Whitehorse Art Collection, Whitehorse Artspace, Box Hill, Victoria
2018 Three Women of Clay, Gallery J On Lincoln, Manningham, South Australia, with Tatiana Gvozdetskaya & Susan Robey
2017 Amy Kennedy - Ebb & Flow, Skepsi @ Malvern Artists' Society Gallery, Melbourne, with Tania Rollond
2017 Identity, Skepsi @ Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria
2017 Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition, Toorak Village, Victoria
2017 44th Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook NSW
2016 Gifted, Skepsi @ Malvern Artists' Society Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Works from the Stockroom - The Summer Show, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2016 Distinctive, Skepsi @ Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria
2016 Return to Beauty, curated by Vipoo Srivilasa, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2015 Amy Kennedy - New Works, Skepsi @ Malvern Artists' Society Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award, Manningham Art Gallery, Doncaster, Victoria
2015 Victorian Craft Award, Craft, Melbourne
2015 Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition, Toorak Village, Victoria
2015 Interplay - aesthetic charm, material challenge, Skepsi @ Malvern Artists' Society Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Quiet Conversations, Skepsi @ Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria
2014 SAM Showcase, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
2014 Important Exhibition of Australia Ceramics, a tribute to Janet Mansfield OAM (1934-2013), Mossgreen Gallery, Armadale
2013 Expressions of Self, Skepsi @ Montsalvat, Eltham
2012 Creative Director’s Choice Exhibition, Jam Factory, Adelaide
2012 Engaging Form, Skepsi @ Montsalvat, Eltham
2012 The 2012 Banyule Contemporary Art Fair, Banyule Arts Space, Ivanhoe
2012 Spring Resident Artists’ Exhibition, Anderson Ranch Arts Centre, Snowmass Village, Colorado
2011 Shelf Life, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
2011 Energy, Skepsi @ Malvern Artists’ Society Gallery, Malvern
2011 Link V: Object-based Practice in Gold & Silversmithing & Ceramics, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne
2011 The Butterfly Effect, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
2011 Arresting, Skepsi @ Malvern Artists’ Society Gallery, Malvern
2010 Golden Earth, Visual Art Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
2010 Clunes Ceramic Award, Clunes, Victoria
2010 Freedman Foundation Exhibition, COFAspace, University of New South Wales, Sydney
2009 Stirring, Skepsi on Swanston, Carlton
2008 Freedman Foundation Exhibition, COFAspace, University of New South Wales, Sydney
2008 Gift of Rod Fyffe, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2006 Basement 17, RMIT Ceramics Graduate Exhibition, Skepsi on Swanston, Carlton
2006 Connect_5, 4Cats Gallery, Abbotsford
2006 Surface Connections, Manningham Art Gallery, Doncaster
2006 Ceramics Victoria on Show, Gallery 159, Brisbane
2005 Formations, Solo Exhibition, 4Cats Gallery, Abbotsford
2005 Fresh! 2005, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2005 Terra Firma, RMIT Ceramics Graduate Exhibition, Skepsi on Swanston, Carlton
2005 The City of Darebin La Trobe University Aquisitive Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora
2004 Synchro, An Exhibition of Media, Design and Art, Gordon Gallery, Geelong
2004 Melbourne Affordable Art Show, 4Cats Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2004 Smorgon Steel Contemporary Art Prize, Customs Wharf Gallery, Williamstown
2004 Chosen Vessel, Manningham Art Gallery, Doncaster
2004 Fresh Clay Fresh Glass, Fusions 2004 Graduate Award Exhibition, Fusions Gallery, Brisbane
2003 Fresh! 2003, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2003 Beneath The Surface, Box Hill Institute of TAFE Graduate Exhibition, 4Cats Gallery, Abbotsford
Presentations
2022 Australian Ceramics Tools for Practice, Series 2, online
2022 The Ceramics Congress, online
2021 Indian Ceramic Art Foundation ICAF, online
2021 The Ceramics Congress, online
2021 Artist Residencies, Advice Clinic, Craft Victoria, online
2020 & 2021 Craft Contemporary, Craft Victoria, online
2020 & 2021 Sydney Craft Week, Australian Design Centre, online
2020 Guest Speaker, The Australian Ceramics Association AGM, online
2019 Guest Speaker, Castlemaine Clay, Victoria
2019 Guest Speaker, Ceramics Department, RMIT University, Melbourne
2019 Special Workshop with Kevin Boyd & Colin Hopkins, Skepsi @ Malvern Artists’ Society, Melbourne
2019 Guest Presenter, Visual Arts Department, Federation University, Ballarat, Victoria
2019 Presenter, Australian Ceramics Triennale, Hobart, Tasmania
2019 Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan
2018 Meet The Artists, Women in the Whitehorse Art Collection, Whitehorse Artspace, Box Hill, Victoria
2017 Special Workshop with Tania Rollond, Skepsi @ Malvern Artists' Society, Melbourne
2017 Guest Speaker, Forum: Artist in Residencies, Slow Clay Centre, Melbourne
2014 Guest Presenter, Ceramics Department, Chisholm TAFE, Dandenong, Victoria
2012 Panelist, Subversive Clay, 2012 Australian Ceramics Triennale, Adelaide
2012 Presenter & Demonstrator, 2012 Banyule Contemporary Art Fair, Banyule Arts Space, Ivanhoe, Victoria
2012 Guest Presenter, Anderson Ranch Arts Centre, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA
2011 Guest Presenter, Emerging Maker Award, International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth, Wales
2010 Guest Presenter, New Directions in Contemporary Australian Ceramics, New Delhi, India
2010 Guest Presenter, Ceramics Department, Chisholm TAFE, Dandenong, Victoria
2009 Forum Speaker, Ceramics Victoria, Box Hill, Victoria
2008 Guest Presenter, European Ceramic Work Centre, s’Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
2008 Guest Presenter, Making Personal Objects Seminar, RMIT University, Melbourne
2008 Guest Presenter, Ceramics Department, RMIT University, Melbourne
2007 Guest Presenter, Making Personal Objects Seminar, RMIT University, Melbourne
Publications
2019 ‘An Insight into Artist Residencies’, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, 58#1, p.60-2
2018 What Women Create USA, 'Delicate Strength: Amy Kennedy', by Sandra Evertson, Summer 2018 Issue
2017 The Journal of Australian Ceramics (Cover) and 'New Frontiers: To The Edge of Melt', 56#1, p.58-9
2017 'Study in Contrasts' by Lilianne Milgrom, Ceramics Monthly (USA), January 2017
2016 Gallery, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, 55#2, p.6
2015 'Potted History', Arts, The Age, November 28, 2015, p.22
2014 'A Maker Greatly Missed', Inga Walton, Ceramic Review, Issue 169, p.43
2014 Gallery, The Journal of Australia Ceramics, 53#2, p.11
2014 Quiet Conversations: Exceptional Australian Ceramics, Skepsi @ Montsalvat, Anna Maas, p.35
2013 Expressions of Self: Australian Ceramics Excellence, Skepsi @ Montsalvat, Anna Maas, p.29
2012 Engaging Form: Exemplary Australian Ceramics, Skespi @ Montsalvat, Anna Maas, p.25
2011 The Best of Art, The Age Melbourne Magazine, Issue No.83, September, p.87
2011 ‘Artist fires up for show’, Diamond Valley Leader, September 14, p.18
2011 ‘Arresting and Expressive Sculptures’, Stonnington Leader, March 8, p.26
2010 Golden Earth: An Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics, Delhi Blue Pottery Trust, p.44-45
2009 ‘Skepsi on Swanston’, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, 48#3, p.86
2009 500 Ceramic Sculptures, Lark Books, p.156
2008 ‘Grant Recipients’, NAVA Quarterly, September, p.18
2008 Gift of Rod Fyffe, Bendigo Art Gallery, p.10
2008 ‘Empty vessels in the firing line of greatness’, The Age, Metro Arts and Culture, May 1, p.18
2007 ‘The Lure and Shame of Skill: Studio Craft in Australian Universities’, Craft Arts International, No.70, p.73
2006 ‘Breaking out of the white cube’, Craft Arts International, No.67, p.79
2006 On Show, The Age, M Magazine, 1 October, p.48
2005 ‘Rough and Gutsy Pieces’, The Age, Metro Arts, Sightlines Critical Exhibition Guide, April 1, p.8
2005 ‘Formations’, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, 44#2, p.42-43
2004 ‘Top Young Artists win $1,000 prizes’, Banyule Banner, November, p.3
2004 ‘National Education Pictorial Survey’, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, 43#2. p.53
Artist Residency Professional Experience
2022 Interviewer, In Conversation with Eliza Dawson, Executive Director, Res Artis
2020 Consultant, Auckland Studio Potters Artist in Residence Program
2019 Social Artist in Residence Team Member, Far Flung: Connecting Intergenerational Families, Manningham City Council
2019 Res Artis Conference, Creative Encounters: Reimagining Residencies, Kyoto, Japan
2014 Established Artist in Residence Program, Education Coordinator, Northcote Pottery Supplies, Melbourne
Professional Memberships
Res Artis
Craft Victoria
Craft + Design Canberra
The Australian Ceramics Association
National Association of Visual Artists
Amy is represented by Skepsi Gallery, Melbourne