Amber Zuber is a Canadian artist based in Norfolk County, Ontario. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from McMaster University and studied ceramics at Sheridan College, School of Craft & Design. In 2017 she received her MA in Ceramics from the Royal College of Art, London, England.

Since graduating, she has transitioned from the city to a rural studio practice. Her home and barn studio are situated among mature trees, dark skies, and native gardens that support insects and birds.

Zuber has exhibited in Canada and internationally including the U.K., Germany, and France. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery (Courtyard), Harbourfront Centre (Craft), and the Gardiner Museum (Lobby). She has travelled to Denmark and Estonia for ceramic residencies and was also a full-time artist-in-residence at Harbourfront Centre in downtown Toronto.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I seek a dynamic and collaborative relationship with clay, the core material of my practice.  Working abstractly and directly with the material in different stages of plasticity, my process is physical, intuitive, and emotional. I stretch, rip, roll and push the material to collapse and near ruin in search of new aesthetic possibilities.  The hand of the artist is wholly evident, even aggressively obvious, as my fingers are my primary tools. Chance, immediacy, and risk are integral to the work, so is my body. I feel while I am making what I cannot say and I hope to make visible the impossible to describe.