Save the date & join us for our February online artist peer group.
Established in 2015 our artist peer groups are an opportunity for artists exploring health and wellbeing in their practice to gain feedback and support on their projects, ideas or challenges that they are facing. The space is for active feedback, meaning that artists aren’t sharing finished works, but asking for specific support from others attending the session. Together we pool resources and provide feedback in a supportive environment.
One of our presenting artists is Samantha Schneider. Our second artist is to be confirmed.
Want to share your work at a future group? Fill out our application form.
Cost.
Free / Pay What You Can (suggested £5)
Images: Samantha Schneider
About Samantha Schneider
I am a visual artist based in London. My creative practice is both personal and confessional, as way to unburden myself and explore my experiences of grief, pain, healing, caring and human connection. My ideas evolve rapidly, moving through a wide range of curiosities, but ultimately, creating is a place where I can lose myself and bear my soul.
I am at my happiest outdoors, immersed in the elements. I am drawn to the grounding, sensory experience of making in nature. Working in this environment is restorative - it helps to regulate my nervous system and connects me to my primal self.
Play is central to my process. I work with materials such as inks and watercolours that invite a sense of unpredictability, choosing to let them lead. Often working on multiple pieces at once, I move quickly and instinctively, frequently incorporating words or poems into the artworks. What emerges in the works is raw, honest, and unfiltered.
I will be sharing a series of self-portraits exploring the challenging emotions and behaviours I was experiencing as a teenager. I have been experimenting with using my teenage diaries, family medical records and material, such as ice to create the work. Through the process of creating, self-soothing and sharing, I feel I am giving my younger self what I needed.
I want to test out sharing the work and get support with the different ways I could show the work and how I could develop participatory workshops around this body of work.
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