sam pickett
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A process-based visual artist, exploring colour alchemy, wild spaces, the fugitive nature of matter. Engaging with folklore, rituual and science. Challenging cultural myths through art practice. Sustainable, ecological, metaphysical. I believe art can function both as a spacing and a sensing of the shared separation we are currently experiencing. Member of the ecoart network.
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Sam Pickett
Old Hall, Over Kellet, LA6 1DA
01524 736913
www.sampickettsomewhereelse.com
Artist Statement
I am a visual artist working with film-making, installation and sculpture combined with socially engaged encounters and interventions. Critical writing is another important facet within my practice. My work is influenced by the human condition and the proposed era of Anthropocene, responding to existing tensions between culture and the natural environment. Through a process of investigation I explore the unconscious connections between ritual, myth, materiality and function. Member of the ecoart network
Education
MA Fine Art, distinction, University of Central Lancashire, 2016-2018
Degree BA (Hons) Fine Art first class, University of Central Lancashire, 2013-2016
Workshops
Saturation Point, foraging workshops, 2022
Artist in Residence, Blackwell arts and Crafts House, Cumbria, Novemeber 2019
Adult Educator, Lino print workshops, Dallam Community, Cumbria, UK, September 2017-2019
Art workshop leader, Dallam Boarding School, September 2016 – present day
Curator, Class of 2016, Hanover Project, Preston, UK, September 2016
Abandon Normal Devices festival invigilator, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria, UK, 2015
Exhibitions
We Could be Witches, The Fish Factory Art Space, Cornwall, 2024
Artist Interventions in a Time of Crisis, Rogue Studios, Manchester, 2023
An Ecology of Everything, Jewellers, Morecambe, 2022
An Ecology of Everything: Plants, Folklore, the Cljmste and Love, Carnforth Civic Hall 2022
The Hexting Essays, online project, April 2020
The Arts and Crafts of Politics, Blackwell Arts and Crafts House, Cumbria, January 2020
Under the Northern Sky, Barrow in Furness, March 2019
Messy democracy, Hanover Project, Preston, UK, April 2018
Interlude, PR1 Gallery, Preston, UK, February 2018
Small World, PS Mirabel, Manchester, UK, July 2017
Class of 2016, Hanover Project, Preston, September 2016
12-2-1, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Blackburn, UK, March 2016
Test:Bed, Abingdon Studios, Blackpool, UK, December 2015
Best of Britannia, Preston, UK, May 2015
Chrysalis Arts mentoring bursary 2018
Featured in The Double Negative as one of the North-West’s top Fine Art graduates 2016 http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2016/05/class-of-2016-the-north-wests-top-fine-art-graduates-revealed/
Jorge Aguillar-Agon Student Artist Award, May 2015
Published Writings
Corridor8, Doremi Residency, The Institute, Coniston, Cumbria UK, October 2017
http://www.corridor8.co.uk/article/doremi-artist-residency-open-weekend-2017/
Corridor8 review, Martin Creed, artists Room, Harris Museum and Art Galler, Preston, UK, March 2017
http://www.corridor8.co.uk/article/artist-rooms-martin-creed/
Corridor8 review, Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria, Uk, October 2015
Corridor8 review, Presence of an Absence, The Birley, Preston, UK, July 2015
http://www.corridor8.co.uk/online/review-presence-of-an-absence-the-birley-project-space-preston/
Corridor8 review, Anselm Kiefer at Tully House, Carlisle, UK, June 2015
Corridor8 review, Oculist Witnesses: According to Duchamp at The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK, June 2015
Hanover Project review, Martin Hamblen at The Birley, Preston, UK, May 2015
https://hanoverproject.wordpress.com/press/
Corridor8 review, Feel Me, Martin Hamblen at The Birley, Preston, UK, March 2015
http://www.corridor8.co.uk/online/review-feel-me-the-birley-preston/
