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WELCOME RWA FRIENDS |
ARTPORT WARMLY INVITES RWA FRIENDS TO A TALK AND Q&A SESSION WITH ARTIST HAMISH YOUNG PLUS AN EXCLUSIVE ARTIST’S TOUR OF THE ARTWORK. EVERY PARTICIPANT WILL SELECT A SHELL TO KEEP; A UNIQUE, ORIGINAL ARTWORK BY HAMISH YOUNG. |
DATE: SUNDAY, 24th SEPTEMBER,
TIME: 10.00AM VENUE: THE FOLK HALL, 95 HIGH STREET, PORTISHEAD, BS20 6PR. |
FIELD | HAMISH YOUNG RWA MRSS
A UNIQUE, COMMUNITY ART EVENT IS COMING TO PORTISHEAD
ArtPort is delighted to present FIELD by artist HAMISH YOUNG: a unique, participatory art installation created for and within the community of Portishead.
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FIELD by artist Hamish Young is a specially commissioned artwork created from 27,000 hand-cast plaster shells, moulded from shells collected from around the south west coastline. In this work, each shell represents a local resident - each of the 27,000 people who call Portishead ‘home’.
The installation will be housed in The Folk Hall, an accessible community space in the heart of Portishead High Street. Hamish and ArtPort invite everyone to come together and be a part of this organic art installation. Whether you live in Portishead, or are visiting our wonderful festival, there is a shell for you to choose and take away with you to a different place, a new home. The gradual erosion of the sculpture field will be documented in a time-lapse film and you will become a part of the story. This is art for everyone. Come and connect.
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HAMISH YOUNG RWA MRSS
Hamish Young is a highly regarded artist who has chosen to make his home with his family in Portishead. His work is an exploration of his life and history. Adopted as a baby, the concepts of home, belonging, connection and the sense of ‘being in between’ are central to both his life and work. The act of collecting shells or stones from a beach resonates with his childhood experiences of being removed from one place and brought to another. Hamish describes Portishead as “the first place I’ve ever really put down roots and made connections.”
For more insight, watch our ARTSTORIES short film in which Young speaks about his life experiences and their impact on his work in greater depth.
BIOGRAPHY
HAMISH YOUNG RWA MRSS Hamish Young (b. 1972 Rotherham, UK) studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art. He became a Royal West of England Academician in 2021 and a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2022.
His work is held in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Royal West of England Academy and private collections. He is an artist, author and educator.
Young’s work has been exhibited at Royal West of England Academy, Royal Academy of Arts, Saatchi Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. His work is regularly selected in prize exhibitions including the Wells Art Contemporary Installations, New Light Prize, ING Discerning Eye, Trinity Wharf Drawing Prize. He was the winner of the Visual Arts Open in 2019 and awarded first prize for three dimensional work at Wales Contemporary in 2022.
Young’s work is autoethnographic, concerned with formalising ‘in between’ spaces that manifest in various ways including crossing the boundary of sculpture and drawing, objects or materials being
removed from one place and placed in another, and subject matter of physical spaces that are between states. Through allusions his work triggers metaphors and personal associations.
For more insight, watch our ARTSTORIES short film in which Young speaks about his life experiences and their impact on his work in greater depth.
BIOGRAPHY
HAMISH YOUNG RWA MRSS Hamish Young (b. 1972 Rotherham, UK) studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art. He became a Royal West of England Academician in 2021 and a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2022.
His work is held in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Royal West of England Academy and private collections. He is an artist, author and educator.
Young’s work has been exhibited at Royal West of England Academy, Royal Academy of Arts, Saatchi Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. His work is regularly selected in prize exhibitions including the Wells Art Contemporary Installations, New Light Prize, ING Discerning Eye, Trinity Wharf Drawing Prize. He was the winner of the Visual Arts Open in 2019 and awarded first prize for three dimensional work at Wales Contemporary in 2022.
Young’s work is autoethnographic, concerned with formalising ‘in between’ spaces that manifest in various ways including crossing the boundary of sculpture and drawing, objects or materials being
removed from one place and placed in another, and subject matter of physical spaces that are between states. Through allusions his work triggers metaphors and personal associations.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ARTIST HAMISH YOUNG |
Click on the image below to watch our specially commissioned short film.
Click on the image below to watch our specially commissioned short film.
Visit Artist Hamish Young’s website:
