Ami Zanders
Material: Textiles | Location: Merseyside
Ami Zanders is a Bermudian artist based in Liverpool. She earned a BFA from Kean University in 2008 and an MA in Fine Art from Liverpool John Moores University in 2020. Zanders has exhibited widely and received the Charmin Prize for Innovation at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art in 2010. Her installation When the Bough Breaks was selected for the 2014 Bermuda Biennial, and in 2015 her work was chosen by the Textile Museum of Canada to represent Bermuda at the Pan Am Games. Her collaborative video Embers, created with Kristy Warren, was exhibited in the 2022 Bermuda Biennial.
As a form of meditation, Zanders uses a four-shaft table loom to create scarves, where colour and texture are central to her practice. She views colour as actors, some supporting, others leading, but all working together to tell a story. Zanders continues to exhibit in Liverpool.