User:Arttoeye/Samuel Zealey

Samuel Reuben Forêt Zealey (Born Dulwich, London, 1986, England) lives and works in London.

Zealey started to make unusual connections between the physical world and the visual world, and through a sculptural perspective these articulated interesting formal and conceptual questions ('Degenerate Science' and 'Plagiarizing Nature'). He appropriates popular household and industrial appliances in order to find strange and unknown functions in their performances, motivated by a desire to catalyse domestic equivalents of spectacular events that you might see only once in your life, if ever, like a dying star. Zealey attempts to make an uncommon experience common in a controlled situation, by constructing amazing PES ('Potential Energy Sculpture's') that form perfect microcosms of our universe. He operates as a artist/scientist/engineer translating the ordinary into the impossible recreating scientific and celestial phenomena.

Samuel Zealey graduated from Wimbledon College of Art in 2008 with a BA hons in Painting. Shortly after graduating he was invited to take part in the Concrete and Glass festival showing work in Saatchi's 15 at the Beach Blanket Babylon exhibition space. In 2009 Zealey Featured in BBC2's School of Saatchi series, he was one of six artists narrowed down from 3000 to exhibit in the exhibition 'Don't raise the bridge lower the river' at the Saatchi Gallery. Since then Zealey has exhibited in numerous group shows around London including Kinetica art fair, he has been made a member of the RBS (Royal British Society of Sculptors) and has work in the Contemporary Arts Society collection. Currently Zealey is studying sculpture at the RCA (Royal College of Art), London, 2010-2012.