Amy Potenger is a Auckland artist whose work navigates the intersection of memory and visual systems through a lens of slow, deliberate accumulation. From the early influence of childhood albums to her sophisticated studio practice, her work is a layering of fragments, a playful, humorous, and color-rich offering to the "logic of collage" she has refined throughout her life. Facilitated by a life spent noticing the overlooked, her practice explores how images interact to build new worlds. Her work is an embodiment of visual events, like the accidental collision of colour on a torn poster or the rhythmic attention of a long morning spent painting in the studio while listening to a audiobook. Her studio works as a database, built over time, full of fragments, images, materials, and past paintings that can be reused and rethought.

Acting as a curator of her own database, she channels ideas and materials, both found and deeply personal. Whilst maintaining a commitment to environmental curiosity, Amy draws on a magpie palette of stickers, text, and worn surfaces to create her highly vibrant yet conceptually grounded visual language. Whether through her explorations of cut forms or her global inspirations from artists like Francisco Toledo, she celebrates the rawness and the intricacy of the human experience as a map of constant discovery.

"I think of painting as a space where images accumulate and generate meaning through proximity... a way of working rooted in the childhood logic of my sticker books.."

– Amy Potenger