Amber McCartney is a Naarm/Melbourne-based dancer and choreographer. Her practice incorporates

prosthetics, mask-making, film, and practical special effects to create new augmented bodies foreign to

the performer and viewer. Amber has worked extensively with Chunky Move and Lucy Guerin Inc., and is a Creative Associate of Tasdance. Amber received a John Truscott Artists Award this year for her solo Tiny Infinite Deaths, which she performed at Rising at the National Gallery of Victoria. The work premiered in Pieces 2022, commissioned by Lucy Guerin Inc. and The Substation.

In 2023, Amber premiered her solo Baby Girl, commissioned by Tasdance, for MONA FOMA in the Nolan Gallery, Mona. In 2022, she was honoured to receive a Chloe Munro Fellowship from Lucy Guerin Inc. She won a Green Room Award for Best Performer in Prue Lang’s Project F and was a Telstra Emerging Choreographer Award finalist. Her film, Tiny Passenger, was screened at Dance (lens), Dancehouse. In 2020, Amber was a recipient of Solitude 1, Chunky Move’s home-based residency program and created her film Softtrap.

Amber has enjoyed performing for Dancenorth and Antony Hamilton Projects, as well as independent choreographers and multidisciplinary artists, including Jenni Large, Prue Lang, Jo Lloyd, James Batchelor, Su Huiyu, Kyall Shanks, Jonathan Homsey, and Niharika Senapati.