Amy Rusch is an artist working across disciplines and mediums. She’s been exploring a vibrational expression of mark-making, using stitched thread into layers of found plastic bags.

”Cutting, stitching, heating, pulling, binding, gathering, layering – these practices demand their own rhythm, by turns slow and meticulous then quick, fast interventions. The motions enacted in making provide a retrospective link to the embodied experiences, transmuted in the process. The machine stitching into plastic is not about replicating an experience, an object, or anything formally understood. The process is about sitting with the remnants of man-made materials; human time in contrast to the elemental and deep time.”

Recent exhibitions include presentations at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2025 and FNB Art Joburg 2024 with Suburbia Contemporary. Amy presented a solo body of work with SMAC gallery in 2022 titled Seeing with a Listening Ear, a culmination of 3 years of making. She exhibited at the Norval Foundation as part of the Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2023 finalists exhibition. She has shown work at the Pretoria Art Museum, Iziko South African National Gallery as well as the Zeitz MOCAA.