Iman Sidonie-Samuels

Iman Sidonie-Samuels (b. 2002, London) is an award-winning artist whose practice examines acts of collecting as a way of understanding memory, care, and cultural inheritance. She recently graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, following an Erasmus exchange at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague, and a Foundation Diploma at Central Saint Martins.

Working across sculpture, installation, and assemblage, she engages materials such as phone bills, steel shelving, and plaster to probe how memory is held, transmitted, or unsettled through objects and inherited techniques.

Rooted in both domestic and museological contexts, Sidonie-Samuels reimagines institutional methods of archiving and preservation, transforming them into tactile, intimate gestures that foreground fragility, touch, and reinterpretation. Her work reflects on the Black British experience through a nostalgic and often personal lens, drawing together overlooked materials and domestic display systems to question how histories are cared for, misremembered, or transformed across time. By reshaping familiar structures of storage and conservation, she creates ephemeral versions of memory- objects and arrangements that hold space for tenderness, disruption, and renewal.

Recent exhibitions include Re: Generating Creativity at Lethaby Gallery (2025), A tender contemplation on the act of observing with Hypha Studios (2025), and Tribute Act at the Central Saint Martins Degree Show (2025). She has exhibited at Cromwell Place, The Crypt Gallery, Elephant Space, and The Koppel Project, and was awarded the Sid Motion Gallery Prize (2025). Sidonie-Samuels has undertaken research with the Musée des Arts Décoratifs et du Design in Bordeaux and participated in collaborative projects with the V&A and ENSBA. Alongside her artistic work, she co-founded Studio Sessions, a bi-monthly creative platform for young Londoners, and has held roles at Frieze London, Camden Arts Centre, and the Design Museum.