ABOUT US
SAMM SHACKLETON
Samm Shackleton is an artist from Yorkshire whose work spans performance, installation, video, and writing. Deeply influenced by their ongoing recovery journey, Samm’s practice is rooted in spirituality, self-inquiry, and transformation. Their work explores the convergence of life and art, blurring personal experience with universal themes and enabling moments of collective resonance. Through performance-driven installations, public interventions, and symbolic materials, Samm creates spaces where surrender and self-discovery unfold. Their works invite audiences to become active participants in intimate processes of healing and growth, reflecting on what it means to be alive. Samm sees their practice as a continuous, existential commitment to interconnectedness, that invites others to engage in the meditative, alchemical power of art.
www.sammshackleton.co.uk
PIERCE STARRE
Pierce Starre is an artist based in Liverpool whose multidisciplinary practice draws from the multifaceted intersections of their cultural experience as a queer, working-class, neurodivergent individual raised by Deaf parents who communicate using British Sign Language. Their practice seeks to initiate opportunities to examine and subvert the prevailing heteronormative and neuronormative societal narratives by interweaving the concepts of intersectionality and neuroqueering. Through live performance, sculpture, textiles, objects, text, still and moving images, their work creates immersive experiences that foster connection, reflection, discussion, and transformative possibilities.
www.piercestarre.com
WEEKS & WHITFORD
Weeks & Whitford make complex psychologically, emotionally and physically intense participatory durational performances involving evolving installations, specific soundscapes, choreographies of inter related actions and improvisations in response to context, site and audience. Liveness is central to their work. The use of sound scores, materials, props and actions enables them to construct personal and shared processes of transition or transformation. They address specific issues and challenges and communicate their experience of it to others. These issues, concerns and experiences become aestheticised as part of a highly personal, revelatory ongoing narrative. Their work has addressed alcoholism, cross-dressing, childlessness, caring, ageing, disability, the grind of labour, love, sex, gender, jealousy, infidelity, sin and repentance, despair, hope, faith, ritual, healing and magic. The work allows for Weeks & Whitford as two distinct people, two performers with different but overlapping languages and processes and makes difference, the negotiation of it, and the struggle to operate in relation visible.
weeksandwhitford.co.uk