Courtesy of the artist and Centre Culturel Irlandais. Photo by Conor Horgan.
Sam Keogh
Born in 1985, Ashford, United Kingdom
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
Overview
Sam Keogh’s work spans installation, performance and drawing. He builds fictional, physical worlds from collaged scraps and found objects, painting and stitching together detailed and colourful tapestries utilising diverse materials. Keogh uses these constructed sites as pupae for his metamorphic, metaphysical performances, which require the amassing of flotsam and jetsam such as beer bottles, apple cores, and toilet cleaner. Blurring the line between mundane objects and props elevated to artwor...Read more