Amy Cushing
Amy Cushing
Amy Cushing is a British artist whose practice explores color as a language of perception, atmosphere, and form. Working primarily in glass, she creates sculptural objects distinguished by saturated color, optical depth, and carefully balanced composition.
Cushing trained in Public Art at Chelsea School of Art, where her studies encompassed large-scale drawing, painting, ceramics, glass, and three-dimensional practice. Her early experiments fusing glass with clay led to a sustained investigation of kiln-formed glass and its particular capacity for luminosity, transparency, and chromatic intensity. Over more than twenty-five years, she has developed an extensive technical vocabulary through testing, firing, and close observation of how glass colors transform under heat and interact in combination.
Color remains central to Cushing’s work. Drawing from tropical flora, marine life, feathers, shells, and the heightened clarity of light found in warmer climates, she builds compositions through sequence, contrast, density, and transparency. Color functions as structure rather than ornament, determining the rhythm, balance, and visual tension of each piece.
Her Paradise sculptures bring together mouth-blown and kiln-formed glass in layered, non-functional forms. Individual elements overlap and intersect, allowing light to pass through the work and intensify the relationships between color and form. As the sculpture is viewed from different angles, its internal composition continually shifts, revealing new alignments and chromatic relationships.
Cushing has exhibited extensively in the United Kingdom and internationally. Her work has been presented at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Salisbury Cathedral, Collect London, PAD London, Seattle Art Fair, Collectible Brussels, London Craft Week, and Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, with solo exhibitions at Vessel Gallery and GX Gallery in London. Her work has also been presented by Todd Merrill Studio, New York, and Vessel Gallery, London.
Education
Chelsea School of Art, London — Public Art