Dwell Awhile with Sam Read

Dwell Awhile with Sam Read, recorded August 2020, via skype between Huddersfield and Sheffield.

Sam Read is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Sheffield. He is a founding member of GLOAM artist studios and gallery which has featured in Frieze Magazine, and is a member of The Retro Bar, a collective of Yorkshire-based writers, researchers and artists. He is a former Associate Artist at Nottingham Contemporary and Fermynwoods Contemporary Art. Sam is currently studying for a Masters’ in Fine Art at the University of Leeds whilst developing a practice founded in drawing and digital compositions. This work is often displayed or distributed in non-institutional contexts

Current and forthcoming projects:

As part of his MA, Sam is crafting wearable and domestic objects to be exchanged, gifted, adapted or appropriated in a spirit of DIY. The desire to find new social purposes for his art, such as conducing acts of collaboration, is a reaction to feelings of pessimism created by crises such as the Coronavirus pandemic.

Since becoming a co-director of GLOAM Sam has also been busy with administrative and curational tasks at the volunteer-led artspace. Several public events are planned for the new year, having been postponed due events in 2020