'Samantha English's beautiful pieces reflect the preciousness and fragility of our memories'
Our memories are scattered and frayed at the edges, they are at the mercy of our emotions and desires and carry the complexity and weight of our own narratives. Exploration can be laboured, fractured and fragile. It brings forth glimpses of a past eroded by time and emotion.
Samantha returned to higher education in 2017 and completed an MA with distinction in Jewellery, at UCA Farnham. Her work with memory began there and continues today through silversmithing, etching and metalwork.
Samantha’s exploration of memory originated as she experienced a reminiscence bump, a tendency in older adults to have an increased recollection of memories from childhood and adolescence. Samantha seeks to explore the reliability, the truth, and the fragmentation of her memories. Working in the vessel form and the narrative of landscape, she gives the viewer a place to hold their own memories, for contemplation, storage, or exploration. Samantha uses precious and non-precious metals to capture the fragments, preciousness, decay, and sensations of memory.
For Quintessence at The Box Gallery, Samantha will be exhibiting a selection of her most recent vessels and landscapes exquisitely created in silver and copper.
Samantha has successfully exhibited her work since, including exhibitions at Gallery 57 in Arundel, and the Oxmarket Contemporary Gallery in Chichester. She also regularly sells bespoke pieces by commission.
