The Stone Phantom
Digital Video
10.00min
2019

The Glenkiln Man
Digital Video, Nylon, Fan, Wooden pegs
18.00min, Variable Dimensions
2018

Bird Device For Venice
Digital Prints
2017

Sam Hewland

b. 1991, Stockport, UK
Previous Duo and Solo exhibitions include: Minimum Crisis, Hotel Generation, arbyteLASER, London, UK 2017. Rate of Decline W/ Mark Riddington, Losers Gym, Nottingham, UK 2016.
Group Shows; MFA Interim Show, Reid Gallery; GSA, UK 2018. Billboard, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK 2017, Mould Map 6, Terraformers, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, UK 2017.
Hunky Dory, Enclave Lab, Deptford, London, 2017 (w; Kitty Clark, Harry Sanderson, Claire Davis Curated by John Harris)

His practice often lies within sculpture, video and performance. Thinking about historical narratives being readdressed and a sense of questioning around ideas of forms of grand mimicry in statues and monuments to oneself. A large focus has recently been on questioning public sculpture, reflecting on its role and thinking about socio-political aspects of modern Britain. Thinking about questions related to place and a history of an area in relation to people and how a population questions its own historical narratives and current standing. Within that he uses research as a basis for thinking about the future. Often delving into researching a specific trait of a place, building, object and using that as starting points for work. All of the work he makes often has a large element of dark humour or bathos, often eventuated with an amount of failure.