Poet and artist
Sam Wilson Fletcher
Sam Wilson Fletcher is a multidisciplinary British-Irish artist. He was born in Lewisham, London and studied chemistry and quantum mechanics at Oxford and geosciences at Harvard and the German Research Centre for Geosciences before switching to a full-time artistic practice. In 2022 he was artist-in-residence on expeditions to Antarctica and the Canadian Arctic and Greenland, as well as aboard a ship crossing the Atlantic from Amsterdam to Quebec City. Forthcoming artworks relating to these residencies include books, a print series, and an experimental choral work for twenty-five voices. Other recent or forthcoming publications include CURSE TABLET (Slub Press), New Adjacent Possible Empty Niche (Veer2), Six Poems (Earthbound Poetry Series, Vol. 2), Dark Ecology (anthology: 100 Poems to Save the Earth, Seren Press) and Maybe This Is About Grief (Magma).
Sam Wilson Fletcher is geboren in Lewisham, Londen en is opgeleid als wetenschapper in Oxford en Harvard. Recente publicaties zijn onder meer New Adjacent Possible Empty Niche (Veer2), Six Poems (Earthbound Poetry Series, Vol. 2), Dark Ecology (bloemlezing: 100 Poems to Save the Earth, Seren Press) en Maybe This Is About Grief (Magma). Recente kunstenaarsresidenties omvatten een Atlantische oversteek en expedities naar Antarctica en het Canadese hoge noordpoolgebied.
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CURSE TABLET: An Excerpt (2023)
Inkjet on found paper, dimensions variable
CURSE TABLET: An Excerpt (2023) is a series of prints made with elements sampled from CURSE TABLET, a book forthcoming from Slub Press.
In CURSE TABLET Sam Wilson Fletcher has pulled together a strange historiography of the curse as writing (and back again). Figures of the Imperial Roman army, sacred canticles, Sam’s own spit (x4) and geological detritus are bound in a woven code that twists on the profundity of the terrifying, the evil and the questionable—as he says:
“Curse tablets do cause people to die.” — Cole Denyer (author of CC DEATH CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT)
“CURSE TABLET is fucking great.” — Owen Brakspear (author of Cabaret and Water Year)
“This lexical lava stream left a permanent mark on my psyche.” — Jay Drinkall
Inkjet on found paper, dimensions variable
CURSE TABLET: An Excerpt (2023) is a series of prints made with elements sampled from CURSE TABLET, a book forthcoming from Slub Press.
In CURSE TABLET Sam Wilson Fletcher has pulled together a strange historiography of the curse as writing (and back again). Figures of the Imperial Roman army, sacred canticles, Sam’s own spit (x4) and geological detritus are bound in a woven code that twists on the profundity of the terrifying, the evil and the questionable—as he says:
“Curse tablets do cause people to die.” — Cole Denyer (author of CC DEATH CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT)
“CURSE TABLET is fucking great.” — Owen Brakspear (author of Cabaret and Water Year)
“This lexical lava stream left a permanent mark on my psyche.” — Jay Drinkall