Sam Baker
MA work
MA work
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The Lucas Plan, 2018
Copper, wallpaper steamer.
250 x 250 x 110cm -
Studio Experiment, 2018
Timber, paraffin wax, beeswax, kerf cut box section steel, wallpaper steamers.
450 x 400 x 200cm -
Studio Experiment (Detail), 2018
Beeswax, timber , box section kerf cut steel, wallpaper steamer. -
Radiator, 2018
Box section steel, paraffin wax, wallpaper steamer.
70 x 40 x 5cm -
Ephemeral Objects (Beeswax), 2018
Timber, beeswax, wallpaper steamer.
150 x 90 x 110cm
These lengths of flexible, interchangeable copper pipe are workers...they are consumers.
They whistle, hiss and devour all that they touch before expelling out a liquescent matter. The sticky deposits leak from the slices in the metalwork forging a new, material landscape; ever shifting and expanding without a centre.
‘The paradox of consistency imposed by the plasticity of wax may therefore be understood as the possibility.’
I am interested in the many ways in which wax disrupts the movement of unruly forces and a resistance between the water vapour and docile wax develops.
Info
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Arts & Humanities
Programme
MA Sculpture, 2018
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Contact
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07450341476
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"The main focus of my research has been investigating the intangibility and pervasiveness of steam.
By contemplating steam as a physical, matter based material I am utilizing present forces to disrupt the atomised makeup of objects. I am constructing systems that attempt to trap and manipulate steam that are ultimately sentenced to fail."
Sam Baker is an artist who lives and works in London.
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Degrees
- BA Fine Art, Kingston University, 2014; Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, University of Northampton, 2011
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Experience
- UKYA Cornish Weekender Residency, Porthmeor Studios. St Ives. 2018; Work in Common Residency, Primary. Nottingham. 2017; Floorr Magazine: Issue 12, featured artist and online interview. 2017 https://www.floorrmagazine.com/issue-12/sam-baker
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Exhibitions
- Too Much Information, Seventeen Gallery. London. 2018; Critical Cartographies, Filet. London. 2018; CGP Open, CGP Gallery. London. 2017; Altered States, Air Gallery. Manchester. 2017; Seasons, Maxilla Art Space. London. 2017; BORDERS_BORDERS, Edinburgh College of Art - Sculpture Court. Edinburgh. 2017; WIP Show, Royal College of Art - Sculpture Building. London. 2017; Ich komm zum glück aus Osnabrück, UKYA national festival. Derby. 2016; Summer Salon, Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes. London. 2016; The Woon Foundation Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Gallery North. Newcastle. 2014; Kingston BA Fine Art degree show, Kingston University. London. 2014
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Awards
- Mark Devereux Prize Winner. 2017; Cheong Kam Hee Prize for Sculpture, Woon Art Prize. 2014