About

Amber Cronin is a cross-disciplinary artist living and working on Kaurna Yerta (Adelaide, South Australia). Her practice moves between sculpture, textiles, sound, and performance, creating works that gather people, materials, and environments in shared acts of attention and reflection. Situated within an ecology of research that includes plants, soil, and sound, her projects explore resilience, ecological grief, and the ways we remain connected—to one another and to the more-than-human world—during times of transformation.

Developed through extended periods of research and collaboration, Cronin’s work reframes everyday gestures as participatory rituals. Her practice arises from an oscillation between global phenomena and intimate encounters, finding expression in spaces where art becomes both contemplation and survival—a means of staying with the heavy things in order to move forward.

Cronin’s practice operates as an interdependent system of studio making, gallery presentation, facilitation, and community engagement. Alongside her own practice, she is a program curator for South Australia’s Nature Festival, where she commissions and produces large-scale public programs exploring art’s role in environmental storytelling.

Amber’s leadership and delivery capacity are informed by more than a decade of experience working across artistic, curatorial, and organisational roles. As founding Co-Director of The Mill, she helped establish one of South Australia’s key artist-led spaces, producing interdisciplinary residencies, exhibitions, and mentorship programs that supported hundreds of artists nationally and internationally. She was a Creative Australia Future Leader and continues to mentor and advocate for artists through sector-wide initiatives and professional networks.

Cronin holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours, First Class) from the University of South Australia and has undertaken numerous research residencies across Europe, including PADA (Portugal) and ISSP (Latvia). Her work consistently attracts institutional partnerships and collaborative teams of composers, researchers, and community groups, reflecting her ability to manage ambitious, multi-stakeholder projects with clarity, care, and strategic vision.

Through these roles, Cronin has developed a distinctive approach to relational practice—one grounded in empathy, dialogue, and collaboration. Her projects create spaces for collective reflection, transforming performance, sound, and sculpture into frameworks for resilience and renewal. Amber is a passionate advocate for the arts, deeply committed to the social and cultural value that artists bring to communities, and to fostering the conditions that allow complex, interdisciplinary work to thrive.