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Meet The Team
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. Often they are things which are overlooked, deemed useless or just plain unloved. She has also curated the 'Welcome Home' virtual exhibition and installed large scale work 'Room for Improvement' by Caren Garfen as part of CTRL/SHIFT by the 62 Group of artists which was displayed at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre. In addition to her creative practices, Kat has presented her academic work on local folk traditions at University Campus North Lincolnshire as part of Heritage Lincolnshire open days. She has recently had her fictional written work published in the Lincolnshire Strange Delights zine.
Sam De Freitas is a co-founder of Pop Up Scunthorpe. He graduated in 2016 from Leeds College of art with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Sam’s practice 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 art works 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.
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