Amy Iona

A closely-cropped image of a person's feet and shins in an allotment. They are wearing black and white Addidas Samba trainers and white crew socks, and standing next to a pile of fresh green leaves, placed directly on the soil for composting. The leaves take up half of the image, cutting across it diagonally. The image has soft colours and a slight grain, typical of 35mm film photography.

Amy Iona is a lens-based artist, researcher and creative facilitator.

She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a First Class Honours in 2020 and was awarded the inaugural Creativity, Inclusivity & the Virtual award to support a year of research at the University of Glasgow, developing frameworks for access and inclusion in the creative industries. She is interested in facilitating encounters with art outwith the white cube, and contributing to projects which foster collaboration and collective care.

Amy is particularly interested in how relationships between people and nature are impacted by social and cultural identity, explored through photographic objects and alternative processes. Her work is heavily informed by Scottish folklore, esotericism and queer feminist theory.