Sam Larter is an artist from East Yorkshire who makes sculptures, drawings, and prints. She has a BA in Fine Art from Hull School of Art and Design, 2017, and has shown work in a number of solo and group exhibitions around Yorkshire. In 2022 she was nominated for the Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award.
Sam makes sculptures using materials that are free, readily available, donated or discarded, transforming their original purpose. Observation and drawing are important to her practice. She often works quickly, in a spontaneous way, responding to materials and processes, exploring and experimenting.
The forms and images produced in the work are abstract, and influenced by noticing shapes and structures that are present to us every day, but which may be considered unimportant. The sculptures often take an abstract form and look like they could be made of wood and steel but are in fact made using ephemeral materials evoking a sense of play.
Sam believes that everybody should have access to art and advocates making art with materials that are readily available to hand. She works as a Special Educational Needs teaching assistant at a secondary school in East Yorkshire.
For this residency Sam has been invited to create a new work inspired by the Ferens’ permanent collection or building. The new work will go on display at the Gallery from 28 June to 22 September 2024.
Our artist in residence will be working in Gallery 11 at Ferens Art Gallery, and from 18 April will be available to chat to visitors between 11am and 1pm each week on Thursdays.
Sam will also give a free informal talk about her practice and the new work she is making at the Gallery on Thursday 6 June at 2pm.
