List of products by brand Amber Moir
EDUCATION
2014
Bachelor of Fine Art at Stellenbosch University, South Africa
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO SHOWS
2023
Only the river, Reservoir Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2021
Composition by Field, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa
2020
Along the Line, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa
2019
In praise of Shadows, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa
GROUP SHOWS
2022
Lush, Cavalli Gallery, Stenllenbosch, South Africa
2021
Falling Awake, The Fourth, Cape Town, South Africa
To Whom It May Concern, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa
2020
Turbine Art Fair, Joannesburg, South Africa
A Hazy Shade of Winter, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa
2019
Wildflowers, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa
Spier Light Art Festival, Stellenbosch, South Africa
NEXT, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Sydney, Australia
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa
2018
Turbine Art Fair, Joannesburg, South Africa
Endless, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa
Proof, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2017
SS17, Gallery MOMO, Cape Town, South Africa
2015
Turbine Art Fair, Joannesburg, South Africa
Hinterlands, GUS Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Domestic Odyssey, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Amber Moir (1990) is a South-African artist. She lives and works in Cape Town.
The language of Moir’s large-scale, immersive work is forged through translating watercolour paintings into pitch-rolled prints. This process involves emulating an etching press, either outdoors or on the studio floor, and utilizing a pitch-roller as printing tool. Works are painted with watercolours onto sheets of polypropylene plastic before being impressed onto damp calico fabric, creating a confluence of painting and print.
Moir’s initial interest in printmaking was the feeling of facilitating a series of events rather than imposing something directly on to a substrate. Printing with the pitch-roller furthers this exploration, pushing the limitations of the monotype technique and using the whole body to work the print.
Unlike the controlled environment of the studio press, the method is imprecise and unpredictable with strips of folded fabric and uneven printed surfaces serving as visual cues of the physical and hybrid nature of Moir’s process.
Once dry, some of the works develop into drawings, as shaded areas and fine lines are added with colour pencils. Moir says of her method: “I’m interested in the tension between agency and facilitation and the skill of knowing when to step in and when to step out. I’ve developed a method that helps to decentralize my role in the making process, and it’s in this space that I find a sense of freedom.”
