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First Name

Ellen

Last Name

Sampson

Country

United Kingdom

City/Town/Village

London

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Email

ellen.sampson@network.rca.ac.uk

Statement

Ellen Sampson is a material culture researcher, artist, and curator. Using film, photography and installation, her work explores the relationships between bodily experience, memory and artefacts. She addresses the ways that material objects can become records of lived experience and how these traces of these experiences can be read or understood by the viewer. Exploring the resonance of worn and used artefacts, she seeks to uncover how attachment is produced and maintained - the way that an object which is worn or held close to the body can become incorporated into the self.