Amber Imrie

  • Artist website: https://www.amberimrie.com/

I was raised in the illusion of a house, where the boundary between inside and out was porous-unfinished walls exposed rooms to weather and animals slipping easily into our domestic abode. Born into the back-to-the-land movement in rural Arkansas, I came of age in a landscape that shaped me more than any human hand.

My practice grows from this entanglement of place, identity, and inheritance. As a queer feminist artist, I work across photography, textiles, sculpture, and poetry to build intimate mythologies rooted in the Ozarks-where erosion becomes a metaphor for belonging, and holy stones, fishing lines, and hand-stitched quilts carry the weight of ritual and memory.

Through layered materials and site-responsive forms, I seek to reimagine the rural not as monolith or nostalgia, but as a shifting ground for queer becoming-tender, resistant, and alive with its own ways of knowing.

Imrie-Above-Ground
Imrie-Soft-Armor
Imrie-And-She-Let-it-Wiggle
Imrie-Their-Thirst

Above Ground
archival pigment photography on cotton, thread
39" x 60" x 1"

Soft Armor (the 13th)
photography and textile
36" x 44" x 1"

(and she let it wiggle)
Archival pigment ink photography on cotton, thread, batting
37" x 167" x 1"

Their Thirst
archival inkjet pigment ink on cotton, hand- sewn thread
10" x 20" x 1"