Amelia Rodriguez (BFA Emily Carr, 2023) works across pathways of poetry, painting, installation, sculpture, and textile work. She focuses intently on the connotations that material carries. Themes of comfort (and discomfort) that come with nostalgia thread through her practice. By combining these tender emotions she is able to create art that feels soft, while saying something harsher. The tough tongue of a mother. The feeling of being held after you cry. By creating something so soft yet so unsure, she explores the relationship that humans create within dependent care systems. Amelia centres themes of vulnerability, care as an active gesture, and using feminized methods of art making as a statement.
She takes inspiration from children's books, comfortable beds, and cold showers. Amelia lives and works on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy\'em (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwəta /Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations.