Contact: samrisley44@gmail.com

Sam Risley is an artist and filmmaker from South-East London. His practise is concerned with narratives of renewal, with a focus on ecological restoration within landscapes shaped by violent capitalist practises. His current research has been inspired by personal histories that have been shaped by the complex and deep-rooted concerns illuminated by climate change, and how they form the way that we exist in the present and into the future. He is drawn to collaborating with those who are already collaborating with the environment they find themselves in.

He works primarily with moving image and written text, but also across photography, installation and sculpture. His work has been exhibited at The Baltic, The Horse Hospital, GAO Gallery and IMT Gallery amongst others, as well as screened at film festivals such as Rencontres and Sluice and I have had texts published by Ca-Foscari Press and Da Thirst.

Selected Shows

2024 Rencontres Internationales, Berlin

2023 Rencontres Internationales, Paris

2023 Above Land, Electro Studios

2022 Re-Wild Ilford, Ilford Spark

2021 The Second Body, APT Gallery

2021 Access, Deptford, public projection

2020 New Flesh, online screening

2019 Sliuce Biennial, Odense, Denmark

2018 Group Show, Gao Gallery, London
2017 Two Glass Eyes, Thames-Side studio, London
2017 One Night, The Horse Hospital, London
2016 You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Fig Leaf, The Laughing Bell, London

2016 Da Thirst x Baltic 39: Dawn of Justice, Baltic 39, Newcastle
2015 Surprise Birthday, Edinburgh

2015 IMTen, IMT Gallery, London
2015 Deptford Stories, Deptford Stories, London
2014 Fat Relic, Fat Relic, London
2013 Cinema as Object, Woburn Research Centre, London

2013 Group Show, Wellcome Collection, London

Publications

2023 Building Common Ground: Ecological Art Practises and Human-Nonhuman Knowledges, Ca-Foscari Press

2016 Da Thirst, Issue 6, contributor

2014 Da Thirst, Issue 4, contributor

2013 Morning Baby, contributor