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BIEN FOURRE: Margarita Sampson
Soft Sculpture | August 2023
Margarita Sampson works predominantly in soft sculpture & contemporary jewellery. Her work is strongly influenced by her Norfolk Island background, referencing natural forms, patterns & textures, in particular underwater lifeforms.
I'm interested in the idea of colonisation, growth, opportunistic expansion, the organic versus the inorganic, taking over spaces and recontextualising them. I don't like to be too specific with the forms in my work, I like them to be suggestive enough of any number of possibilities so that the viewer brings their own story and imagination to the party....then the work starts to resonate, through that conversation. If a work answers it's own questions it's dead.
The recent 'Salon' series pitches overweening growths onto a host chair, which begins to succumb or bend under the weight. Poised at a juncture, there are many scenarios that could evolve... the chair is buried in soft forms? They outgrow themselves and die out? They take over an entire room? you?...that's the excitement and the tension I seek when working on a piece... " MS 2012

















