Sam Birt is a collage artist working with magazines and books to create abstract compositions that are visually captivating, intriguing and thought provoking. Her work has two points of access: from afar they are full of colour and light, brought together with a strong sense of movement and playful dynamics which guides the observers eye through both familiar and unfamiliar landscapes of cities and dreamscapes from the past, the present and future.
Then you get close and a whole new world is revealed. Fragments of our lives are torn, cut and then pieced together in unexpected unison creating a whole new world of meaning. Sam say’s that the process of making collages echos how we live our lives, constantly selecting, absorbing, rejecting, and then assembling our daily experiences as a way of making sense of it all.
This is what the viewer encounters or experiences when exploring Sam’s work. Each piece depicts something that we know, an essence of the complexities of our lives and how everything is constantly and continuously moving together and apart. We are held in a moment of suspension in time and space, each collage offering a glimpses of meaning, a sense of beauty and harmony, a sense of belonging and cohesion.
Sam Birt is a collage artist, video maker, choreographer and dancer. She is originally from London, but has a diverse cultural background with roots in India, Canada and various European countries. She has lived and worked in several cities around Europe and now is currently based in Lake Como, Italy.
*To purchase signed and certified original collages and limited edition prints contact: sambirt123@gmail.com
Reviews & Exhibitions
https://rjgolden.substack.com/p/sam-birts-collages
https://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/673435
Exhibitions
Incollavertitas, selected for group street art exhibition Catania, Sicily 2025
Re-evolution, Spazio Naon Pordenone, Italy 2022
Fragments, Museo di Storia Naturale Pordenone, Italy 2020
Collagistas, selected for International collage festival, Maison du Peuple de Saint – Gilles Brussels, Belgium 2019
La vita di carta, Casello di Guardia, Porcia, Italy 2019
Collagists, selected for International Collage Festival, Temple Bar Gallery Dublin, Ireland 2018
Caverna del Gufo Pordenone, Italy October 2017
Palanzo in Arte Polanzo, Italy June 2016
Tornoalago Torno, Italy April-May 2015
Atena Galleria d’Arte Como, Italy February 2014
Premio Ora, Italy January 2014
Ubik. Como, Italy May 2013
Fattaamano Como, Italy April 2013
E.NA+Solizee Chiasso, Switzerland – February 2013
Cucina della Marianna Cadenabbia di Griante, Italy July 2012
Caffè Letterario Pordenone, Italy April 2011
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