Amy Tsilemanis (A.T Studio) is an artist, producer, curator, and researcher, based in Ballarat Australia (Wadawurrung Country). She is a co-founder of the Australian Walking Artists network, and loves interweaving people, places, and ideas.
Working in the GLAM sector, and across audio storytelling, poetry, collage, participatory walks, and installation, her work explores connections to place and to each other through time and across artforms. In 2020 she completed her practice-led PhD on activating heritage collections and places through creative organisational thinking and arts practice. This research was undertaken over a three-year period as curator at the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute working with heritage collections and producing various exhibitions and events. She has a Masters in site-specific audio theatre, and has presented and produced radio shows and audio works, including Gather Podcast with Minerva's Books & Ideas, and developed content for the digital history trail ballaratrevealed.com and the Historic Urban Landscape Ballarat digital portal hulballarat.org.au Her 2023 project Heart Maps exploring maps and audio was part of a creative research fellowship in the Otways (Gadubanud Country), funded by Regional Arts Australia. She presented on the Heart Maps project at the 2023 WAC – Walking Arts Encounters/Conference in Prespa Greece.