Amy Grasso, 'Tethered Through Time'
33 x 42 x 5 cm
Ilford Galerie Prestige HW DD Matt
Edition 1/1 
$369
 
This diptych reflects on friendship, grief, and the enduring bonds that persist across years and adversity. In Vancouver—a city woven into our shared history—these images unfold the nuanced journey of reconnection after a period of distance. Old friends, known for over fifteen years, find their way back to each other through mutual mourning, with communal intimacy and support gently coming into focus. 
 
It doesn't shy from sorrow nor dwells only in it; instead, it reveals the gentle power of long-standing friendship and the resilience that emerges from shared experience. Tender gestures and glimpses of ordinary life fill the frame, testifying to a strength built on everyday joy and collective healing. 
 
This work is an exploration of duality: presence and absence, fracture and mending, solitude and shared strength. Through these images, I honor the cycles of friendship—how time can estrange, then reunite us in deeper understanding. Ultimately, these photographs invite the viewer to witness not just loss, but the quiet endurance and beauty of community, memory, and love rediscovered at the intersection of life and death. 
 
 
Amy Grasso is an Australian photographic artist whose work is observational, isolated, and silent in nature. Her images seek to portray life as it truly appears — unvarnished, unresolved, and often on the edge of disappearing. Her practice explores the unconscious expression of the human inner world, inviting the viewer into quiet moments that stir more questions than answers. 
 
Working exclusively with film, Amy is a self-taught photographer whose process is rooted in patience, presence, and intuition. She moves between black-and-white and color, using tone, composition, and psychological atmosphere to build images that are minimal yet emotionally dense. Rather than illustrating a fixed truth, her photographs imply — opening space for curiosity, projection, and reflection. At the core of her work is an existential undercurrent: a deep attunement to impermanence, the passage of time, and the quiet knowing that we will all one day die. 
 
In addition to her personal work, Amy has photographed for a range of local and international creatives, including ceramic artists and the fashion brand Oak & Fort. Her commissioned photography maintains the same sensibility — restrained, poetic, and emotionally attuned. 
 
Amy also works with textiles and clothing as part of a multidisciplinary practice. These material explorations mirror the same thematic concerns — presence, absence, memory, and the emotional weight of form and surface. 
 
In 2015, she exhibited at Equinox Gallery in Vancouver, BC, in a group show featuring emerging voices in contemporary black-and-white photography. Having lived and worked across North America and Australia, Amy’s practice continues to be shaped by movement, cultural observation, and a desire to hold complexity without explanation. 
 
Her work sits at the intersection of documentary and poetic realism — inviting stillness, and holding the viewer just a little longer inside the ordinary.