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Sam Haynes

London
Multi-media mid career artist working with sculpture, photography and installation creating abstract, geometric assemblages using found objects and materials.
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Sam Haynes started her practice nearly thirty years ago creating site specific public art installations, engaging local communities with the belief that art has the power to bridge divides within society. The creative process is still all about making connections, within her practice as an artist, curator and collaborator. Accessibility lies at the heart of Haynes’ work, incorporating found objects and materials, using low tech methods of construction to create abstract assemblages that reference architectural space. Moving between sculpture, photography and installation, these playful interactions, surprising and yet familiar, explore the tension created between balance and counterbalance, animated through the use of colour, light and shadow. Primarily led by an intuitive process, found objects become a metaphor for human connection, giving form to an emotional core.

Since 2020, the photographic process has become a key element of Haynes’ work, both in its development and display, presenting a fixed perspective while giving an enlarged perception of scale, allowing the every day object to be both elevated and celebrated.

Haynes has worked in arts facilitation for many years which continues to influence her artistic practice, engaging local, often marginalised communities, working in partnership with charities and public art commissioners.

 

WE FLOAT

RIP CURL

CATCHING A GLIMPSE OF LIGHT

GOING BANANAS

SAND SIFTER

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

ICE INVERT

SOUNDING STILL

GUTS GALORE

SPRING SQUEEZE

DREAMBOAT

STROKE OF LUCK

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