Evolve
17th January to 14th February
To start the year 2020 we are presenting you with Evolve, a group exhibit made of select works by our three working curators, Kat, Sam and Hannah.
Kat Spence is an artist, writer and curator working in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire who is co-founder of Pop Up Scunthorpe. Her artistic practice is bricolage which means to create using a diverse range of things. It arises from the French language and means ‘to tinker’ or roughly ‘do-it-yourself’. Materials are unconventional and are a combination of collected found objects or materials which are to hand. This often means a rejection of the purpose bought, instead choosing to repurpose and recycle. Objects vary from dried flora and fauna to art work deserted by its original owner. Often they are things which are overlooked, deemed useless or just plain unloved. Whether that be uncovering the paint below an abandoned canvas or making poetry from phrases in books left by their readers, she want to give these objects a new purpose and lease of life.
Sam De Freitas is the other half of Pop Up’s co-founding. He graduated in 2016 from Leeds College of art with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Sam’s practise began as an expression of his own synaesthesia, the neurological condition meaning that he associates sound, smells and words with colour, shape and movement. Sam’s works are often over-worked to the point of needing to whitewash over and over again until they become something he can tolerate. Sam was chosen as one of the four “introducing” artists by 20-21 Visual Arts Centre in 2019 and gained a solo exhibit at the gallery last October. More recently Sam has stripped his practice back in an attempt to produce a more honest and gritty body of work at a much healthier rate. He states “I want them dirtier, more chemically imbalanced and very true to my unhealthy frustration of trying to make it as an artist in a northern steel town”.
Hannah Moulds Joined Pop Up in the year 2018; after a succession of exciting artworks and winning two student prize awards in POP^up’s open exhibitions over the years, Hannah was invited to join the team. Hannah graduated from Leeds Arts University with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Her practice resides within the realms of sculpture and installation exploring the interior architectural space and narrative. Hannah works with fabric, and recycled objects, manipulating them in and around negative space - Guiding the viewer with a narrative; influencing their experience through short fictional texts that sometimes personify the sculptures. Hannah’s textile creatures have been exhibited in many spaces over the last year including venues in London, Leeds, Manchester and Lincoln. Hannah went on to complete an artist residency at Greywood arts in Co. Cork, Ireland.