AMY BRADNOCK
Amy Bradnock is a Birmingham-based sculptural ceramic artist working primarily in hand-built stoneware. She graduated with First-Class Honours in Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2025, specialising in Sculpture and Time-Based Art. Since graduating, Amy’s work has received recognition through a number of awards and commendations, including the Manchester Academy of Art Artist Submission Award, SWA Christopher Seow Special Commendation, Judges’ Commendation at Leamington Spa Art Gallery’s Open 26, the Fred Aldous Award, and the Manchester Academy of Fine Art 3D / Mixed Media Graduate Award.
Her wider practice has also developed through opportunities including a Venice Fellowship with the British Arts Council at the British Pavilion during the 2025 Architecture Biennale, and a residency at Fábrica da Criatividade in Castelo Branco, Portugal. She continues to develop her ceramic practice through exhibitions, independent projects and ongoing research into material, form and process.
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Amy Bradnock’s practice is material-led, grounded in a collaborative dialogue between maker and material. Her work is centred on the ideology of becoming, drawing on theories of materiality and agency that position matter as continually transforming, resisting fixed or static identity.
She embraces the mutability of clay, encouraging it to slump, fold, and collapse, capturing moments where movement is suspended in time. These forms embody a perceivable flux - a fluid knot where past, present, and future intertwine. Within this shifting state, Bradnock creates ambiguity. The softness of her sculptures evokes a bodily presence that exists somewhere between human and organic, blurring boundaries between interior and exterior, self, and other. She enhances this uncertainty through thick, layered glazes in bold, saturated tones that disrupt the familiar, placing the work in a surreal, tentative space, one that resists clear definition and invites a more fluid perception of being.
Through this ongoing exploration of material and form, Bradnock’s practice challenges fixed notions of identity, inviting viewers into transformative spaces where familiar boundaries dissolve and objects exist in constant states of becoming.