about
Amy (she/her) is a queer emerging artist currently studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts - majoring in Sculpture & Time-based Media at the University of Tasmania.Amy’s practice traverses disciplines of performance art, dance, participatory performances and sculpture. World-building and space making, Amy is passionate about creating environments transporting audiences elsewhere. She thrives off of collaboration and connection, constantly seeking out opportunities to create and work with others.Being a member of Launceston’s Youth Dance Company Stompin since 2020, Amy has performed in Junction Arts Festival, MONA FOMA and Ten Days on the Island. Choreographing works such as ‘Into the Void’ 2023, in Stompin’s Youth Choreographic Project and interning in Stompin’s major project ‘Ground Beneath, Ocean Between’ 2024.Alongside her artistic practice, Amy works at Design Tasmania and is the 2026 co-director of The Creative Pod, UTAS’ art society.Amy hopes to create a safe, inclusive and expressive space for all as she continues to work, dance and create on palawa country.
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Tarptholomé
Amongst the moonlit landscape, a creature awakens. The whispering wind makes way for the rising of TARPTHOLOMÉ.Made of a silver tarpaulin, witness the innocent curiousity of your own imagination.Escape to another world and venture inwards. Traverse to the land of
TARPTHOLOMÉ.
Sculptural Installation and Performance, 2025
The Annexe, UTAS Inveresk Campus
Most recently, I have undertaken my graduate show for a Bachelor of Fine Arts at UTAS, using a recycled tarp as my prop. Tarptholomé was a performance and installation where I facilitated two public performances.A live performance diving into the vulnerable crustacean-like creature of Tarptholomé. We get a glimspe of the sparseness, expanse and extremities of Tarptholomé's world whilst witnessing the awakening of an unknown entity.
Ant Nest
Aim: Make a nest for Queen Anthia and
her eggsRules: Be an ant*How to be an ant*Be one
Work in a team
Be exactly the same
Go onwards and upwards
Do not stray
Follow, follow, followExceptions: To pass the time, you may sing.
Participatory Performance, 2024
The Workshop Building, Inveresk Campus
Ant Nest is an interactive performance game in which players build a nest out of cardboard boxes. Aiming to spark child-like wonder, I created an immersive and imaginative experience through world-building.Whilst wearing ant helmets, teams compete for the Queen, to win the apple core. Centered around cooperation and community, Ant Nest is inspired by the collective lifestyle of ants. Both instructions and a theme song immerse the participants in the fictional world during the performance. Through creating a playful yet structured task, participants worked towards a shared goal.
Capture the Flag
I remember climbing the apple tree that once held the swing. I remember the time we hit the homegrown lemons with a tennis racket over the neighbour’s fence. I smell the dirt from the mudpies and hear Donkey Kong on the Wii. Memories of my childhood. Memories of home.Yet, these memories are shadowed with the bitterness of having to choose sides. A collision of values and the desperate need to win, when all that was required was a parent.As feud enters the home, rivalry begins. Children squabble, adult's yell. Tactics thought, plans planned. Comradery formed through sibling conflict. Effects of the battle never wear off.As the feud quietens and you move out, it all becomes distant.And soon, the reality of the world engulfs you, asking you to truly pick a side. But all you want to do is go back to being the kid on the swing in that apple tree.
Participatory Performance, 2023
Grass Area on Inveresk Campus
Capture the Flag is an interactive performance of a classic children's game, 'Capture the Flag'.Who do you belong with? What team are you on? Is it apples or is it lemons? The inner child of you calls to be heard. They want to laugh, giggle, wonder and imagine. They want to be amongst friends playing a game of Capture the Flag.
Into the Void
Recipe for Rebellion
Junction Arts Festival, 2023
Mad Apple Cafe
Within Stompin Youth Dance Company's Youth Choreographic Project 2023, Recipe for Rebellion, this performance was held a part of Junction Art's Festival.Into the Void explores the void above of space with recycled medical blankets. Three dancers, Macey Badcock, Eliza Mott and Emilee Faulkner, voyage the galaxies after an intergalactic slumber. Through rippling planet rings, hurricanes of asteroids and colliding stars, the voyagers suspend their bodies into space, floating amongst the ethereal.
Malleable Distortions
Sculptural Installation and Performance, 2023
Stone Building, Inveresk Campus
Malleable Distortions intertwined the disciplines of dance, performance art and sculpture. I was inspired by Ritchie Ares Dõna’s, 2011, ‘A Circle within a Circle’ sculpture made from milk bottles, piano wire and rivets. Dõna’s sculpture is a series of circles stacked upon each other, suspended above the ground as if a toy slinky.My sculpture progressed from a lifeless structure into a percussion instrument. An unearthly and metallic atmosphere forms the soundtrack. Lastly, a moving body compared to the sculpture paused in motion, was all that was needed to bring the work to life.The being, intertwined in numerous milky transparent thread-like filament, responses to the vessel. I explore not only what this vessel is, but where it is going.
Shoe Suit
The wearable sculpture comprises of a suit made of shoe soles, shoelaces and utility cord.As the action of the performer is recorded, there is an emphasis on the traces left behind by the suit in the environment. The environment of the beach has been chosen to display the natural world we as people have an impact on.
Sculpture and Video, 2023
Greens Beach, Lutruwita
Plagiary
By Alisdair MacIndoeARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, REAL DANCEALISDAIR MACINDOE & TASDANCE
present the fourth iteration of this
acclaimed work.
Fresh from its international appearance at Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, Plagiary lands in Launceston as the launchpad for its Playing Australia tour—a celebration of innovation, process, and performance.ALISDAIR MACINDOE — Direction, Sound, Text, Still Images, Coding, Set & Choreography
SAM McGILP — Video & Coding
AMY LEVER DAVIDSON — Lighting Design & Production Assistant
ANDREW TRELOAR — Costumes & Props
CHRIS CHUA — Software Developer
MARK HARDINGE — Production Manager (Launceston)
ZSUZSA GAYNOW MIHALY — Production & Tour Manager
PENELOPE LEISHMAN & JASON CROSS (INSITE ARTS) — ProducersJESPER HARRISON — Dance, Spoken Word & Choreography
ANGIE COLLINS — Dance, Spoken Word & Choreography
AMY BAILLIE — Dance & Choreography
IZZY LOCKETT — Dance & Choreography
JACQUI MAIDA — Dance & Choreography
LILY ALCOCK — Dance & Choreography
ORIEL COPELAND — Dance & Choreography
REUBEN MACDOUGAL DI MANNO — Dance & Choreography
SARAH GROTH — Dance & Choreography
TOBY McKNIGHT — Dance & Choreography
Dance Performance, 2025
Tasdance + The Annexe, Inveresk
The Hug Couch
Sculpture in Interactive Installation. Collaboration with Eleaza Marchel and Alice Chambers a part of university unit, Creative Lab."Bok Choy and his friends are playing out in the garden. They’d love you to come and join them!‘Bok Choy’s Mindless Permissions’ is a sensory playground to connect with childhood and allow yourself permission to have a moment of mindlessness. The work invites the audience to play, touch and explore the work we have made but then continue these experiences into the garden space and the other works on display. Using a mixture of materials we created garden-themed anthropomorphic creatures that replicate children's toys and a child-like sense of imagination.We ask you to question why we have disconnected ourselves from childhood as we have entered into adulthood?"
Interactive Sculpture, 2023
Exhibited in the UTAS Inveresk Community Garden
Interweave REmade Festival 2025
Currently housed in the LGBTIA+ Room of the Workshop Building
The Hug Couch was delightful surprise. An interactive sculpture where it gives you a soft, encompassing hug with weighted hands for added stress relief.
The Understory
Bubbles float up, as sunlight peers through. Waves of the understory kissing the surface.All is calm, before we witness the present.Only a single moment to be held.A single moment to be protected.Curious critters, whispering and weaving. Make home in these skeletal cages.Catching moments when the moonlight fallsAre we safe? Are we protected? Questions we ask the understory.
Ceramics, 2025
Lantern Gallery, Workshop Building, UTAS Inveresk
From ant hills and cliff walls to termite mounds and weaving coral, I put on display the environmental structures that protect the world around them. The Understory invites the audience to see these protectors. I aimed to create my own atmospheric world, in which a narrative can take place. I imagined Andres Vollenweider’s 'Down to the Moon' acting as a soundtrack for this space.Critters dive into the depths. A safe space to make home. Adapting to the environment while holding their own. These vessels provide a space of protection but also witness the stories that take place within them.With raw hand movements I coiled, weaved and pinched. The shape of the work organically growing to present its form. On top of hand-building, I experimented with wheel-throwing. The process of accepting the shapes forms rather than forcing it into a shape, allowed me to build a relationship with it. I accepted and understood the clay for what it wanted to do. This process overflowed into my hand-building practice as well as my glazing practice. Rather than precisely planning, I let the work call for what it longed for. In nature, it isn’t precisely built. It grows where it desires, sometimes without logic.
