Sam Metz East Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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Sam is an interdisciplinary inspired by movement. Sam’s work researches, creates and reflects on the concept of what they refer to as ‘choreographic objects. A ‘choreographic object’ is any work Sam creates that has, through the process of making or in the way it looks, a relationship to the body and movement. Sam has a studio at the Art House Wakefield.

Sam Metz is an artist based in Hull who creates work that engages with the concept of ‘neuroqueering’. They create sculptural installations that incorporate both film and animation while exploring body-based responses to ecology. As a neurodivergent artist and curator with sensory processing differences, Sam creates work in non-verbal ways that begin and end in movement and embodied interactions without recourse to traditionally privileged verbal and written forms of communication. Recently they created a series of work called ‘Porosity’ which looked at embodied sensory relationships to the Humber Estuary. Sam, through their work with professionals aims to create a shift in perception away from negativity around stimming and neurodivergence. For instance, working with trainee medical students to encourage creative activities that support stimming. Sam has a studio based at the Art House in Wakefield and is currently exploring the river Calder CIRCA Scholarship, MA Art and Ecology, University of Goldsmiths, 2022 Yorkshire Sculpture Network 2022 Drawing as Stimming, Necessity supported research, 2021-23 British Art Network Emerging Curator 21/22 Nominated recipient of Henry Moore Foundation Award 2022