Samantha Cary
My recent work developed over the past three years, marks a significant development in my artistic practice. Moving between painting, mono prints, etchings and woodcuts and through a process of addressing, examining and transforming strong emotions, the works build to create a series of complex, layered and often darkly humorous images. The works set up imagined scenarios, explored through a meticulous and playful interaction with materials and wide-ranging references including music, television, films, fairytales and art history. They tackle subjects including jealousy, the career isolation of artists, dating and heartbreak and are both intensely personal and entirely made up. The work has been developed alongside a growing interest in Buddhist philosophy and I look forward to developing this as I start to make the next work.
Lived Experience
Over the past few years I have worked very hard in my studio building up a body of work that has transformed my practice. I have worked in relative isolation around responsibilities as single mother as my third and final (!) son finishes his schooling. This phase culminated in a solo exhibition at The Granary gallery in Berwick upon Tweed. I am looking forward to the next phase, making new work, meeting new people and building new relationships
Education
2011-2013 MFA Newcastle University
2006-2010 BA Fine Art, University of Sunderland
Prizes, Grants
Bainbridge Print Prize, Woolwich Art Fair
2019
2010
Public Collections
NHS Scotland Birth Rites Collection The Imperial Hospital Trust Ruch Borchard Self Portrait Collection
| Solo Exhibitions
2025
2021 Unsettled Times the Art Stable, Childe Okeford 2019 Domestic Creatures Eagle Gallery EMH Arts
Selected Group Exhibitions 2025 New Light Summer Exhibition RA Summer Exhibition London art fair with Gallery Ten, Edinburgh 2024 Then and Now: 100 Years of Visual Arts Scotland, RSA, Edinburgh 2023 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021 Habitat, Contemporary Six, Manchester 2022 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, Cork St., London 2021 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, Cork St., London 2020 Inprint: 20/20 Vision, Watts Contemporary 2019 Night Walkers, Eagle Gallery, EMH Arts, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, Cork St., London 2018 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, Cork St., London 2017 Mono, Flowers Gallery, 82 Kingsland Rd, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, Cork St., London 2016 Towards Night, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne |
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