sami green creative
Highbridge
Sami Green is a teacher, mentor, and workshop facilitator in Bristol and North
Somerset. She completed a Fine Art BA at University Centre Somerset with Honours
in 2021. Before this, Sami worked for 15 years creating, coordinating and
building imaginative decorative environments for events. Wedding magazines and
blogs across the world featured her styled photoshoots. Installation commissions
include Plimsoll Productions, Tokyo World and Awesome Events. In May 2021, her
degree artworks won a window display space and funding at Weston-Super-Shop
Windows, a community project organised by Weston Arts Space. In 2022 her
community-centred artwork Flutter II for St. John’s Church, Highbridge, won a
new artist bursary from Somerset Art Works. Sami continues to develop The
Transformation Project, curating responses through artist collaboration for SAW
Festival in September 2022. Sami used her degree studies as an opportunity to
develop ideas about perception and experience within critical spatial practice.
A development from events experience. Her July 2021 exhibition, Emergentism,
experimented with the sensory and intellectual processes that help us understand
the world around us. Taking inspiration from nature, her unusual, abstract,
material, and process-driven forms offered participants immersive, light and
sound experiences through colour and frequency. In 2022, ideas led by research
into art education practices and the benefits of art and culture to the
wellbeing of a community have become central to development. Sami has worked
with the community to develop a socially engaged artwork, exploring the
collective potential and the possibilities in collaboration. She is working with
cross-disciplinary performers and makers to promote a four-dimensional approach
to experience through sculptural installation, sound, performance, and
workshops. Exploring the multi-sensory in terms of perception and experience
formed the backbone of recent experimentation. My research paper into the
practices of Olafur Eliasson underpins these ideas,
