Amy Claire Mills, your most beloved textile artist, curator, and producer, is based in Gadigal/Sydney. A neurodivergent and disabled artist, Amy’s work explores themes of advocacy, identity, and resistance. Focused on Disability culture, Amy explores its social and political dimensions as both an artist and subject. Her art serves as a form of protest, blending softness, tactility, empathy, and care with elements of dissent, disruption, and provocation.

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A graduate of the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Amy has worked since 2016 with national and international institutions, festivals, and galleries, including the Liverpool Biennial, DaDaFest, Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW, Firstdraft, and Outer Space, to curate and produce accessible exhibitions and events. Her work is driven by a commitment to creative access and increasing representation for disabled artists across the arts and cultural sector.

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Amy is a founding member of the performance collective Show Us Your Teeth and the art collective New Moon. In 2022, she curated Out of Order at Granville Centre Art Gallery. The first exhibition of its kind at the venue, as it was completely disability-led, featuring video, sculpture, performance, and installation works from disabled artists across Australia and Aotearoa. 

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In addition to her artistic practice, Amy has worked as an access consultant and currently works as Arts Development Manager at Accessible Arts. She creates from her home studio, where she continues to make delicious soft sculptures.