Artist Support (2025)

1-1 sessions focused on artistic practice & career development, devising strategies for taking next steps in professional practice, reaching new audiences or making more ambitious work.
Consulting for artist moving image projects (structuring, budget, schedule & planning) as well as feedback on projects in development.

Rates:

1-1 Development / Mentoring session (1.5 hours): £90
Extended project / application consultancy (day rate, 8 hours): £375

Key knowledge areas include: film & video; choreographic work and working with performers; performance for film; and writing.

For more information or to book a session please email me with brief details of your project and the support you are looking for.

Sam Williams served as my mentor during my residency at Somerset House. As I was developing my film Ana Min Wein, his feedback and guidance were extremely valuable, especially since it was my first experience working with moving image. Sam’s approach was thoughtful and supportive—he was always responsive, offering feedback tailored to my specific needs or questions that came up each week. He carefully reviewed prototypes and individual sections of the work, responding with his thoughts and impressions that helped shape the project as it evolved.

What I appreciated most about Sam was his ability to guide me without imposing his opinions. Rather than positioning himself as an authoritative figure, he encouraged me to listen to and develop my own artistic voice. His mentorship was grounded in careful consideration and respect for my creative process.

– Nouf Aljowaysir

As an emerging artist whose work sits at the intersection between live art, dance and fine art practices, I found Sam's approach very insightful. I found we were speaking the same language, one which takes from choreography and applies this knowledge of space, time and the body to the materiality of filmmaking. Sam has brilliant embodied advice to give artists looking to move more into filmmaking from a performance background, or filmmakers who need a deeper understanding of the performer's embodied knowledge.

– Tess Wood & GWENBA

Access Support

I offer access support for Arts Council England applications including note taking, proof-reading, the structuring of ideas and navigating online portals. Access Support for ACE NLPG or DYCP applications is funded by ACE after a simple application process.

Please email me if you would like to discuss access support.

If you are seeking support in the development of ideas or application writing, this would come under Mentoring.

Sam was an incredible support during my Arts Council England Research & Development application. He had a real ability to make a very complex and often opaque process feel clear and approachable. He was great at breaking everything down into manageable steps and helping me understand what was being asked at each stage. His encouragement and guidance made a huge difference, and I was delighted that the project was ultimately awarded funding.

– Chanthila Phaophanit

Workshops

I have experience running a number of workshops for arts and educational institutions. These workshops are modular and flexible, and can be adapted to suit different audiences and contexts.

Example workshops are below, but email me to discuss ideas. I have a particular interest in improvised, collage and ephemeral processes for opening up creative ideas and potential.

Everywhere Playground wass a 5-day creative workshop held at Somerset House for a group of fifteen future artists, ages 16-19, who are underrepresented in arts education and access.

The group worked towards the creation of their own extended period of experimentation in which they played with the clashing and coming together of different materials and practices to explore the possibilities of improvisation, composition and collage. Throughout the week we re-interpreted different forms of free, experimental making – such as collage, event scores, automatic drawing free-writing, performance “happenings” and guest artist Craig Scott led session in improvised sound and music.

Everywhere Playground workshop series, Somerset House, 2024

In a similar vein, for Camden Arts Centre I devised Temporary Arrangements a series of 15 workshops for young people from The Hive youth club in Finchley.

Each session built upon and remixed material from the previous, taking collage and assemblage as the central techniques. The group worked individually and collectively on text-cut ups, drawing, collage, voice composition, sculpture and photography before bringing everuthing together into an improvised exhibition and limited edition publication.

Throughout the project Sam’s approach ensured the group felt welcomed, listened to and empowered to take risks as they developed a shared visual language of collage, drawing and performance. By the culmination of the project the participants felt at home within the studio, proud of the work they were showing and confident in sharing their ideas, a testament to the environment and collective spirit Sam cultivated through the project.

– George Collom, Learning Curator, Camden Arts Centre

temporary arrangements, Camden arts centre x the hive

FADE is an ongoing active-listening workshop series held in collaboration with artist Lauren Craig. Participants are invited to bring audio material they feel is connected to a certain theme (including but not limited to music, sound recording, texts to read aloud…) and collectively experiment with these sounds and respond through writing, mark making, gesture or any other means (privately or shared). A space is opened for collective reflection or sharing of responses after each track.

Themes are responsive to context, whether it be responding to a curatorial direction, a specific artwork or site. Material explored and created with participants during the sessions are later interwoven and composed into an audio mix that acts as a unique and collaborative sonic interpretation of the workshop.

FADE began as a series of online group listening gatherings hosted by Williams and Craig during the lockdown periods of the Covid-19 pandemic whilst they were participating in the Syllabus VI program with Wysing Arts Centre. Since then, in-person sessions have been hosted intermittently as a way of coming together, sharing space, and taking time to listen.

FADE (undercurrents) responses

Salvage Rhythms is a 1-2 day workshop that explores strategies for using research images (found, original, thematic, visual) to draw out possibilities for new material to work with. Extrapolated from my working process for Salvage Rhythms (2019-ongoing)

First devised for students at Goldsmiths, it explores ways in which to use artists own research imagery to generate writing, choreographic scores and movement material. It also touches upon methods of feedback that are generative rather than reductive.

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