Amy Rusch

Amy Rusch studied Motion Picture Production Design at City Varsity, School of Media and Creative Arts (2009 – 2011). The process-based skills acquired, including sculpting, moulding, casting, prosthetic production and special effects make-up have equipped her to work in a number of fields including film, television and theatre as well as on freelance projects and commission-based work with industrial designers, architects, archaeologists, and boat builders.

 

Amy has recently exhibited an artwork at the Norval Foundation as part of the Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2023. She has shown work at the Pretoria Art Museum as part of the Sasol New Signatures Finalists Exhibition 2021, and at Iziko South African National Gallery as part of the ‘Matereality’ Exhibition between 2020 and 2021. In that same year she exhibited a work at Zeitz MOCAA as part of their show ‘Home Is Where The Art Is’. In 2022 Amy presented a solo body of work titled ‘Seeing with a Listening Ear’ at SMAC gallery in Stellenbosch.

 

Amy worked as a lecturer in the Art Department at City Varsity in 2018 and 2019, and part-time at Peter Clarke Art Centre as an extra-mural art teacher in 2021. Between 2018 and 2020 Amy was represented by SMITH Gallery and exhibited in multiple group shows, as well as at Investec Cape Town Art Fair and FNB Art Joburg.

 

She was part of the team who made museum display copies of artefacts from archaeological sites, Blombos Cave, Klipdrift Shelter and Klasies River Mouth. These have been exhibited in the ‘Origins of Early Southern Sapiens Behaviour Exhibition’ at Spier, Iziko South African Museum and at Wits Origins Centre in Johannesburg. They are now on permanent display at Cape Point. Amy has a fulltime studio practice alongside participation in ongoing archaeological projects in the northern Cape and the southern Cape coast.