Sam Shaw

Little Skiff Retrieved wood, wax, plaster, paint, feather #DelphianOpenCall #delphianopencall

‘Precarious Crossing’ at the edge of the English Channel. After collecting ‘Precarious Crossing’ from Newhaven Open Mary & I took it to Seaford to see what would happen if we put it in the sea. It was very exciting and needless to say we got quite wet ! Thank you @marydownerr for the great photos and sorry about your trainers! 🌊

SNAG 2 SAFEHOUSE 2 Been & Gone Curated by @marylynmolisso @samshawpainter @ali_darke chief organising @a.layton20

‘Merman font’ Wax, ash, breeze block On show this weekend at Snag2 Safehouse2, 137 Copeland Rd, SE15 Saturday 12-6 Sunday 12-4

SNAG 2: An exhibition of work by a group of artists involved in the MASS sculpture program. With an understanding that sculpture is mutable, debatable, shared, and dynamic, this temporary assemblage of works invites new interpretations in the language of matter, space and form. A vibrant intra-action between subjects, objects and this extraordinary derelict Victorian house. Each element retains an energetic pulse yet is affected by external relations, boundaries become fluid, the works generate something other than themselves - weaving patterns of unintentional co-ordination. SAFEHOUSE 2 137 COPELAND ROAD SE15 3SN PV Friday 17 APRIL 2026 - 6-9pm Saturday 18 April 2026 - 12-6pm Sunday 19 April 2026 - 12-4pm @mass.sculpture Alex Layton @alexsw19 Ali Darke @ali_darke Anda Albu @anda.albu.artist Anna Kiff @anna.kiff Anne Petters @annepetters Bern Enright @artfledgling Caroline Burgess @carolineburgesstextileartist Cash Aspeek @cashaspeek Charlotte van Berckel @charlottevanberckel_ Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin @eleanorhavsteen.art Heather Gani @ganiheather Henny Burnett @hennyburnett Jasper Garvida @jaspergarvida Jeremy Wyatt @rootandshoot Marylyn Molisso @marylynmolisso Merrie Carlton @merriecarltonart Nikki Holy @nikki.holy Sam Shaw @samshawpainter Sian Hoolahan @sian_intoclay Siobhan Tate @siobhan_tate_artist Tessa Campbell Fraser @tessacampbellfraser

@bothgalleryldn @samshawpainter @ba_adeyemo @justinehounam Until 29March 12-4 Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays BOTH Gallery, 323 Archway Rd, Highgate Opp Highgate tube

Falls - or still drawn to the sublime plywood retrieved from the shore of the Thames, emulsion, charcoal, oil paint, ewe fleece, tumble drier fluff ( DNA of my family), retrieved decayed plastic, tarpaulin , canvas H345x 320cm On show @bothgalleryldn as part of ‘ How do I bring you into my prescence’ Bringing together the work of three sculptors: @ba_adeyemo @justinehounam @samshawpainter until 29th March 12-4 Friday, Saturday, Sunday

​ PV Tonight: Thursday 19th March 6-8PM 323 Archway Road, N6 5AA Opposite Highgate tube How do i bring you into my presence Featuring B.A Adeyemo, Justine Hounam & Sam Shaw 20-29th March Open Friday-Sunday 12-4PM How Do I Bring You into My Presence brings together three sculptors whose practices explore traces of being—how memory, material, land and domestic space hold the imprint of lived experience. Across mixed media, fabric, film and found materials, the exhibition considers presence not as something fixed, but as something fragile, layered and continually reshaped. B.A Adeyemo examines residues of human experience, mapping displacement, absence and the shifting terrain of identity. Through acts of deconstruction—stretching objects and ideas to their limits—Adeyemo reveals vulnerability embedded within material form, allowing memory to surface as something transient yet deeply felt. Justine Hounam approaches sculpture as a kind of skin. Working with painted fabric stretched over furniture and found objects, she creates cast-like shells that retain the contours, cracks and histories of what once lay beneath. Removed and reformed, these surfaces become territories—psychological and domestic landscapes viewed from above. Accompanied by one-shot films, Hounam’s work reflects on the intimate negotiations of family life and the subtle politics of shared space. Shaw turns to the land itself as both subject and collaborator. Rooted in the layered histories of place—from medieval traces to our Anthropocene present—their intuitive process responds to discarded materials and paint, weaving personal memory with collective inheritance. The resulting works evoke the fragile poetics of landscape, where human intervention and natural cycles are inseparable. Together, these artists ask how we encounter one another through what remains—through skins, shells, fragments and fields of memory. How Do I Bring You Into My Presence invites viewers into a shared space of reflection, where inner and outer worlds meet, and where the act of looking becomes an act of gathering what lingers. #contemporarysculpture #contemporaryartist #bothgallery #exhibition artistoninstagram

How do i bring you into my presence Featuring @ba_adeyemo , @justinehounam @samshawpainter @bothgalleryldn 20-29th March Open Friday-Sunday 12-4PM PV: Thursday 19th March 6-8PM How Do I Bring You into My Presence brings together three sculptors whose practices explore traces of being—how memory, material, land and domestic space hold the imprint of lived experience. Across mixed media, fabric, film and found materials, the exhibition considers presence not as something fixed, but as something fragile, layered and continually reshaped. B.A Adeyemo examines residues of human experience, mapping displacement, absence and the shifting terrain of identity. Through acts of deconstruction—stretching objects and ideas to their limits—Adeyemo reveals vulnerability embedded within material form, allowing memory to surface as something transient yet deeply felt. Justine Hounam approaches sculpture as a kind of skin. Working with painted fabric stretched over furniture and found objects, she creates cast-like shells that retain the contours, cracks and histories of what once lay beneath. Removed and reformed, these surfaces become territories—psychological and domestic landscapes viewed from above. Accompanied by one-shot films, Hounam’s work reflects on the intimate negotiations of family life and the subtle politics of shared space. Shaw turns to the land itself as both subject and collaborator. Rooted in the layered histories of place—from medieval traces to our Anthropocene present—their intuitive process responds to discarded materials and paint, weaving personal memory with collective inheritance. The resulting works evoke the fragile poetics of landscape, where human intervention and natural cycles are inseperable. #sculpture #contemporarysculpture #contemporaryartist #bothgallerylondon #contemporaryexhibition

My wax interpretation of the 12th century pagan font with carved Mermen in St George’s church, Anstey, made while sitting on the stone floor in front of the font. Then Last Friday i took part in a great day with artists @kabir_hussain_artist and @vckyhussain @walnut_works with @mass.sculpture artist’s preparing our sculptures for the furnace by coating and building up layers of a sand and plaster mix to form a mould then adding runners and risers so the sculptures can be burnt out and bronze poured in to the newly created void. Thanks @vckyhussain for the first photo

‘Breadth’ Gleaned plywood, Jesmonite, retrieved plastic, Hebridean fleece, pastel, paint

​ How do i bring you into my presence Featuring @ba_adeyemo , @justinehounam & @samshawpainter 20-29th March Open Friday-Sunday 12-4PM PV: Thursday 19th March 6-8PM How Do I Bring You into My Presence brings together three sculptors whose practices explore traces of being—how memory, material, land and domestic space hold the imprint of lived experience. Across mixed media, fabric, film and found materials, the exhibition considers presence not as something fixed, but as something fragile, layered and continually reshaped. B.A Adeyemo examines residues of human experience, mapping displacement, absence and the shifting terrain of identity. Through acts of deconstruction—stretching objects and ideas to their limits—Adeyemo reveals vulnerability embedded within material form, allowing memory to surface as something transient yet deeply felt. Justine Hounam approaches sculpture as a kind of skin. Working with painted fabric stretched over furniture and found objects, she creates cast-like shells that retain the contours, cracks and histories of what once lay beneath. Removed and reformed, these surfaces become territories—psychological and domestic landscapes viewed from above. Accompanied by one-shot films, Hounam’s work reflects on the intimate negotiations of family life and the subtle politics of shared space. Shaw turns to the land itself as both subject and collaborator. Rooted in the layered histories of place—from medieval traces to our Anthropocene present—their intuitive process responds to discarded materials and paint, weaving personal memory with collective inheritance. The resulting works evoke the fragile poetics of landscape, where human intervention and natural cycles are inseperable. #sculpture #contemporarysculpture #contemporaryartist #bothgallerylondon #contemporaryexhibition