SAM HAYNES
Cluster Photography & Print Exhibitor 2025 |10 Years Cluster Crafts “MATERIAL MEMORY” 2026
2026
Sam Haynes is a multi-media, mid career artist based in London, working with sculpture, installation and photography. With an Art in Architecture MA from the University of East London and a public arts background, her geometric, abstract work expresses a dynamic physicality through a finely balanced aesthetic.
Haynes launched her new photo print series of sculptural assemblages at the beginning of 2021, exhibiting in London, Rome, Buenos Aires and Barcelona. In 2023 she had her first solo show at the Bloom Gallery, London, exhibiting site responsive sculptures alongside her photo assemblages.
Haynes was recently awarded London Borough of Culture funding by Wandsworth Council to create two new metalwork sculptures, completed early in 2026. Haynes’ artwork now ranges from small scale assemblages using found objects and materials to larger scale metalwork constructions and mixed media installations, all influencing her photographic practice.
Longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize in 2025 and 2026 in the photography category, Haynes has been featured in both national and international magazines and publications.
Sam Haynes started her practice nearly thirty years ago creating site specific public art installations, engaging local communities with the belief that art has the power to bridge divides within society. The creative process is still all about making connections, within her practice as an artist, facilitator and collaborator. Accessibility lies at the heart of Haynes’ work, creating mixed media abstract assemblages and constructed sculpture, referencing architectural space.
Haynes moves between media, with each method of approach informing the other, both incorporating and taking inspiration from found objects and materials. Physicality and materiality are key, as playful compositions explore the tension created between balance and counterbalance. Repeated elements come together to embody a fluidity, emphasised by colour, light and shadow. Primarily led by an intuitive process, Haynes’ abstract language becomes a metaphor for human connection, giving form to an emotional core.
2025
BABY BLUES
Sam Haynes (b.1968) is a multi-media artist based in London, working with sculpture, installation and photography. With an Art in Architecture MA from the University of East London and an interdisciplinary arts background, her geometric, abstract work, using found objects and materials, expresses a dynamic physicality through a finely balanced aesthetic.
Her interest in photography developed through the documentation of her site specific public artworks, influenced by the interaction of architectural form and light within a space. Photo imagery is now developed through a temporary assemblage of materials, a comparatively fluid and immediate process, in contrast to the production of her mixed media sculptures and public art installations.
She launched her new photo print series of sculptural assemblages at the beginning of 2021, exhibiting in London, Rome, Buenos Aires and Barcelona. In 2023 she had her first solo show at the Bloom Gallery, London, exhibiting site responsive sculptures alongside her photo assemblages.
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SAM HAYNES
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“I started my practice nearly thirty years ago creating public art installations, engaging local communities with the belief that art has the power to bridge divides within society. The creative process is still all about making connections, both in terms of physical form and human interaction. Accessibility lies at the heart of my work, incorporating found objects and materials, using low tech methods of construction to create abstract assemblages, referencing architectural space. These playful artworks, surprising and yet familiar, explore the tension created between balance and counterbalance, animated through the use of colour, light and shadow. I am led primarily by an intuitive process, with more conscious associations emerging on completion.
Since 2020, the photographic process has become a key element of my work, both in its development and display, presenting a fixed perspective while giving an enlarged perception of scale, allowing the everyday object to be both elevated and celebrated.”