Three Pieces Of Wood, Three Conversations by Sam Ayre

Sam Ayre’s practice centres on conversation and collaboration, seeking to build community as much through the relationships formed while foraging for offcuts as through the creation of objects. Each piece of wood was sourced through conversations in different places—sawmills, joiners, and sites of storm-felled trees, and each explores a range of carpentry techniques, including planing, carving, and joinery, using tools inherited from the artist’s grandfather. The ambition of the work is to unite these conversations and, in turn, to prompt future ones.

Product Information

Sam Ayre
Three Pieces of Wood, Three Conversations
oak and spalted beech
50 x 17 x 13 cm
2025

About the Artist

Sam Ayre is an artist who specialises in participatory projects, creatively engaging groups of people in exploring their opinions, ideas, encouraging radical imagining, embracing tangents, conviviality and mistake-making.

With a supporting studio practice focusing on wooden sculptural furniture and landscape painting, they also co-run a community carpentry studio, Do Your Ideas, with artist Adam Burton in Bexhill on Sea. 

Highlights include commissions for Turner Contemporary, De La Warr Pavilion, Towner, Tate Modern, Freelands Foundation, Art Night London and Charleston House, amongst others and have exhibited at Whitechapel Gallery.

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