Samantha Donnelly lives and works in Manchester. Her works are sculptures, collages/assemblages, films and drawings investigating or recalling experiences of time, space and memory. Her interest is in reconfiguring and reworking materials to produce constructions that are precarious and have a dream-like disjointedness, reflecting contemporary experience. The work offers a dynamic, complex microcosm of an event – coquettish, suggestive and intimate – balancing somewhere on the edge where constructed allure and reality meet. These components are personal, found in junk-shops or materials used in making Sculpture, like chavant and modeling compounds.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Workroom, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
2011 Shoulder to Shoulder, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
2010 Compendium, VITRINE GALLERY, London, UK
2010 Chaste Glances Signify Missed Chances, SupercolliderHQ, Blackpool, UK
2009 Sheer Sliver, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2008 Raven Plateau, Persistence Works, Yorkshire Art Space, Sheffield, UK
2007 Unfold, Cornerhouse Projects, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Passages, CASS Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood
2011 Memory of a Hope, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
2011 The Shape We’re In, 176, London
2011 Fabricatecstasy, Jake Studio 52 Hoxton Square, London, UK
2011 Art Rotterdam, represented by Ceri Hand Gallery
2010 COLLAGERIE, Stew Gallery, Norwich, UK
2010 London Loves, Vitrine Gallery, London
2010 Black Hole Hums B Flat, Ceri Hand Pop-up, London
2009 Collage London/New York, FRED, London, UK
2009 Pietrasanta Residencies (two person show), Royal British Society of Sculptors, London, UK
2009 Perhaps Something Perhaps Nothing, Leeds Metropolitan Gallery, Leeds
2009 Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK
2008 Future50, Project Space Leeds, Leeds, UK
2008 Swap/Vaihto, Bureau, Salford and the Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
2008 Oneplace, Tatton Park Mansion, Cheshire, UK
2008 These Living Walls of Jet, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2007 25th Alum Exhibition, Triangle Artists Association, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
2007 Testbed 5, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds, UK
2007 Situation Leeds 2007, 18th Floor, Woodhouse Lane Car Park, Leeds, UK
2007 Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award Exhibition, RBS, London, UK
2006 Purescreen #16 Beta Test, Castlefield Gallery at Bureau, Islington Mill, Salford
2006 Temporary Cities, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Moscow and Cultural
2006 Communication Centre of Klaipeda, Lithuania
2006 700IS, Kompan, FljÛtsdalshÈraı, Egilsstaıir, Iceland
2006 Visions in the Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts Trust, London, UK
2006 DUMBO under the Bridge Festival 2006, Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
2006 Incydenty, Silesian Castle of Art, Cieszyn, Poland
2006 Paperworks – Paper Art Now, Bury Art Gallery, Bury, Lancashire, UK
2006 Thrift Store, Normalife Unlimited, Neals Yard, London, UK
2005 A Haunting, The University of Manchester, Sackville Street, Manchester, UK
2005 Urban Invasion, Matilda Works, Sheffield, UK
2005 North West Open, Artgene Gallery, Nan Tait Centre Barrow, Cumbria, UK
2005 Picnic on a Roundabout, The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
2005 Group Show, Millfield Gallery, Millfield Street, Somerset, UK
2005 Video Lounge, South London Gallery, London, UK (Artists Video Archive)
2005 Action to Camera ñ Platform 2005, Side Cinema, Newcastle upon Tynne, UK
RESIDENCIES
2010 Standpoint Resisency, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK
2009 Brian Mercer Bronze Casting Residency, Mariani Fonderia Artistica, Pietrasanta,Tuscany.
2008 Swap / Vaihto, Artistís exchange between Bureau, Salford and The Cable Factory, Helsinki
2007 Oneplace, Tatton Park, Cheshire, UK
