As a self-taught stone carver,  Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe, Waitaha, Scottish, English, and Manx descent, she resides in Te Tai Tokerau, New Zealand. Her work began over 12 years ago, with mortar and pestles. She predominantly uses power tools: saws, angle grinders, hammer and chisel, drills.

Amie Redpath creates jewellery, functional objects, and sculpture that weave together stories of fragility, resilience, impermanence, and community. Her practice reflects a deep belief in the bond between people and nature, drawing attention to overlooked details and natural rhythms that shape human life.

Growing up in Southland, Amie’s strongest memories are of the journeys her father led — long walks along the southern coast he had explored as a boy and imprinted into his memory. These family trips covered vast distances, sometimes 20 kilometres in a day, sometimes a week at a time. Together they fished rivers and reefs, gathered mussels, paua, and crayfish, and lived with the elements. For Amie, these experiences were an early apprenticeship in physical endurance, patience, and the resilience to keep going when things were tough. Looking down, she instinctively searched for what was different — shells, fossils, stones — beginning a lifelong relationship with the materials she now carves.

Her perspective was widened further at sea. As professional crew she has sailed across oceans, enduring long passages and witnessing extraordinary natural events: a super pod of dolphins surrounding the vessel, the immense surfacing of a blue whale in open water, and the rare sight of a rainbow at night. These elemental experiences deepened her awareness of fragility and resilience, of the unseen forces that shape both ocean and stone.

With her wide whakapapa, Amie’s practice explores ancestral journeys and women’s strength in carving. Her life has taken her from teaching in Japan, sailing across oceans, to raising children by the sea in Whangārei Heads, where she continues to carve, teach, and exhibit.

Grounded in landscape and seascape, her art is an expression of endurance, wonder, and the living relationship between people and nature.

Areas of investigation and direction.

Exhibitions and Events

CURRENT AND RECENT EXHIBITIONS

Finalist, Perpetual Guardian Small Sculpture Prize 2025, for ‘Hāora Tūturu/ Perpetual Sponge’, Waiheke Gallery, New Zealand.

R T Sculpture Awards, 2024 selected for Sculpture Exhibition as part of NZ Art Show Wellington, May 2025

Sculpture Northland, May 2025

Sculpture on the Shore 2023, Outdoor. Sculpture, 2 works sold.

Sculpture on the Shore, 2023, Indoor Gallery

Kings College Art Sale 2023

Whangarei Heads Arts Trail, April 2023

Retail site, Womad 2023, March 2023

Key Resource Artist, Rock tent’ Collaborationz 2023,

King’s College Art Sale ‘Artbox’ and main gallery area, October 2022

Art Salon Exhibition , Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery, Oct-December 2022

Sculpture Northland, Quarry Gardens, Whangarei, May 2022

Whangarei Heads Arts Trail, April 2022

Sculpture in the Garden, Whangarei 2021

Member’s Exhibition, Depot Artspace, Devonport, 2021

Collaborationz 2021, a collaborative 8 day workshop, head of Stone Section, with 70 New Zealand artists of numerous disciplines. Producing hundreds of artworks, auctioned off. 5/2021.

Whangarei Heads Arts Trail Exhibition, Reyburn House, 2020, 2021

Art in the Garden, curated sculpture tour in various private gardens around Whangarei , 2020

Feast, group exhibition, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, 8/2019

Whangarei Heads Arts Trail, Home Studio, 2019, 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19).

Taste of Auckland, 200 plates, VIP marquee dinner, as requested by Roots Restaurant owner and Best Chef Winner (GoodFood Awards, 2018), December 2016.

Upcoming EveCoborations 

COLLABORATIONS

Lyzadie Design Studio 2019 to present

Stone components of Candelabra and Bookends, Dance of Geometry Collection

Collaborationz 2021 and 2023, 2025, Rock tent Resource Person. see details above.

Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Northern Advocate, November 2023, Sculpture on the Shore Article.

Salt. Chef Natasha McAller, October 2022

Hiakai, Modern Maori Cuisine. Chef Monique Fiso 2020

Cuisine Magazine: Issue 192,Jan 2019, p.24  Engraved platter and bowl, Mark McAllister, Winning Entry, Ōra King Salmons Awards 2018. p.60: Craggy Range Restaurants advertisement.

Cuisine Magazine: Issue 191, Nov 2018, p.19  Good Food Awards, photo introduction. p.52-3, On The Make article, photo and column.  Good Food Awards Guide, front cover photo, p. 62, photo.

COCommissions

COMMISSIONS

Tahitian Pounder, Private. 2023

Cook Islands Pounder, Cook Islands Figure, Private 2023

Solomon Islands Pounder with ancestor figure. Black Granite, 400mm. Private. 2023

Hawaiian Tattoo Bowls, an Upcoming ‘Hawaiian Series’ Yenedakine (Chief of War) 2023

Mussel pendants, Private Commission 2023

Gabbro ring, Private Commission 2023

A series of pounders from around the Pacific, Solomon  Islands, Hawaii, Cook Islands, Marquesas Islands; Private Commission 2023

Hawaiian traditional Poi Pounders, and mortars, ‘Hawaiian Series’ Yenedakine (Chief of War) November 2022

Goddess pendants, in pounamu x 3, for a previous private commission 2022

Pounamu bulge ring, private commission 2022

28cm molcajete, Basalt, 11/2021

Octopus pendant, Pounamu, 12/2021

Mahe pendant, Pounamu, 2/2021

Previous:Various private commissions of mortar and pestles, bowls and plates, nudes, jewellery.

RESTAURANT COMMISSIONS

2016: Micks, Orewa ;O’Connell Street Bistro,Auckland; Bistronomy, Napier; Roots, Lyttelton; Malo, Havelock North

2017: Roots, Lyttelyon; Clooney, Auckland ; Meredith’s, Auckland 

2018: Hiakai, Wellington; Roots, Lyttelton; Kika,  Wanaka; Craggy Range Vineyard, Hawkes  Bay; Tantalus Estate Vineyard, Waiheke Island; Paperbark, Sydney; Saint Alice,  Auckland 

2019: Māha, Kerikeri; Tantalus Estate, Waiheke Island; The Grove, Auckland 

2020: Mr. Morris, Auckland 

2024: CRAGGY RANGE VINEYARD, HAWKES BAY.