MLitt Fine Art Practice School of Fine Art
Sam Torbett – Schofield
Sam is a multi-disciplinary artist working with installation, photography, moving image and sound. Central to his practice are bodies of water in remote landscapes. The solace and ritual found in the journey to them, and the bodily experience of being immersed within them.
Over the course of the MLitt programme, Sam has been exploring the folkloric implications of fabrics within these landscapes. How they can be a vessel for stories, personal history and identity which are washed away in wild waters. How daily labours can fade, a home can be made.
Still, radiant
Still, radiant is an installation which draws from the idea of remote waters as a hearth. A place of solace, a place of ritual. A place of shedding and renewal. A gathering space, removed from the context of time or history.
The central sculpture is an active circular loom, constructed from wood, steel, yarn and jute fabric. A basin of water sits at the top, in which visitors are invited to move their hands through, and affect the reflection of water in the room. It imagines the water-loom as a mythical object, a place of gentle contemplation.
A rendition of ’Still and Radiant’, from “Rocks and Waves Song Circle’, which was recorded with a choir by the sea, echoes throughout the space.
