Samuel Adams born in 1977 in Northamptonshire, studied at the Royal Academy of Art in London and subsequently graduated in 2007. He has since shown in both UK and international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, 2009; Arbatfest, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2014; The Royal Society of British Sculptors, 2014. He currently lives and works in London.

As an artist, Adams works with ideas revolving around communication and the physical relationships between people, cities and space. Working at the intersection between architecture, fine art sculpture and 3D design, his practice has developed through an exploration of the psychogeography of our everyday experiences. Although, his work is informed by the physical constructs of modernity - architecture, design, photography, mapping – it remains based in a reverence and knowledge of form and material.

His sculptural installations integrate themselves within the architecture we surround ourselves with on a daily basis. Shelving within the works act as semi-functional tools to support the rest of the structure in a symbiotic relationship. Whether a pot plant, a metallic doppelgänger of a Brillo pad or a balanced geometric product of design, all of Adams sculptural forms exist to support themselves as the sum of their parts. By reducing the interior into a compact trace of itself, Adams’ work is intensley familiar yet ambiguous in function. Does it belong on a household wall, as a functional storage space or as precious gallery object? Perhaps it functions as all three. 

Samuel Adams
Date of birth 01-12-1977

Qualifications:

Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art Royal Academy of Arts
BA (hons) Fine Art Sculpture Loughborough School of Art

Selected Exhibitions:

2018: Markets (Arc Fortress), Tashkent Biennial

2017: Rod Barton Vienna Contemporary

2016: Psycho - geographic, Excelsior Works 

2014: Bursary Awards, Royal British Society of Sculptors

2014: The Guild, Guild house studios
2014: Art-bat fest, Almaty Kazakhstan
2013: An annotated exhibition, Hilary Crisp
2012: Market Solutions, St Mary Axe
2010 Artworks in a Straight Line (Seeking a Perfect Sphere), Crisp London

2009: Unconditional Love, Venice Biennale
2009: Sons and Lovers, 52meters
2008: Derive, Rivington Street
2008: Idiom Series, I.V Investors
2007: Ear Yourself, Martin Art Turin Italy
2007: Direct Approaches, Harrow
2007: Sexy Sexy, Nolia’s Old Kent Road
2007: Straight Edge, La Viande
2007: Influx, Nolia’s Liverpool Road
2006: ASP:KRK- RAS:LND, Krakow Poland
2006: Originality is reified, Hollow Contemporary
2006: Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts London
2005: Travel Agents, Ian Simpson Architects
2001: Mind that gap, The Custard Factory, Birmingham
1999: Sculpture In The Wilderness, The Ferres Centre