Workshops

What I offer:

I run workshops for schools, universities, galleries and arts organisations. They are modular, and adapted to the audience, the setting and the time available. I have a particular interest in improvised, collage and ephemeral processes for opening up creative ideas.

Email me with the group, the setting and the time you have. Fees depend on length, group size and preparation, and I will send a quote.

Examples of previous workshops below:

Everywhere Playground
Five days at Somerset House with fifteen artists aged 16 to 19 who are underrepresented in arts education. Improvisation, composition and collage, with a guest session in improvised sound.

Temporary Arrangements
Fifteen sessions with young people from The Hive youth club for Camden Art Centre. Collage and assemblage led to an improvised exhibition and a limited edition publication.

FADE
An active-listening series with Lauren Craig. Participants bring audio, and respond through writing, mark making and gesture. Themes respond to a curatorial direction, an artwork or a site.

Salvage Rhythms
Workshop for fine arts students on using research images to generate writing, scores and movement material, with feedback methods that generate rather than reduce.

Funding Strategies for New Graduates
A talk and workshop on grant writing, open calls and building a funding path in the first years after study.

Scores
A workshop (in person or online) on event and perfomance scores.

Throughout the project Sam’s approach ensured the group felt welcomed, listened to and empowered to take risks as they developed a shared visual language of collage, drawing and performance. By the culmination of the project the participants felt at home within the studio, proud of the work they were showing and confident in sharing their ideas, a testament to the environment and collective spirit Sam cultivated through the project.

– George Collom, Learning Curator,
Camden Art Centre

Sam’s workshop was a deeply engaging experience, carefully structured to be accessible even for those of us with no prior experience in performance. I found his introductory approach, where materials seemed to unravel in fragments, much like a collage, to be an incredibly effective gateway into bodily performance. Beginning with narrative writing about daily events, the session organically evolved into image collage and performance. This fluid, unfolding approach allowed our physical movements to intersect like moving fragments, ultimately inspiring me to experiment with performance elements in my own subsequent work.

– Masato Yamada, Goldsmiths Student

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