Mandy Gamsu’s work is about the pleasure of communication and expression. It is about play, humour, the awkward and the abject. It comes from a political sense of anger and outrage, and a personal awareness of the chaos, trauma, embarrassment and hysterical ecstasy of our existence.
Mandy is interested in exploring different materials and curatorial decisions, creating interactions and conversations between pieces of work and the viewer. She is intrigued by the way the work and the viewer come together, and how both are transformed by this process.
She makes interventions with sculpture, painting, collage and print.
Mandy Gamsu completed a part time Fine Art BA in 2019 followed by two graduate residencies. She has had solo and group exhibitions in Sheffield galleries, including the Millennium Gallery. Her work has also been shown in London and she was selected for the Bloc Project Members Show 2019. She is a member of Material Voice, a women's sculpture collective and has a studio with Yorkshire Artspace. She was formerly a GP and educator.
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Education Residencies Awards
2019
Fine Art Bridging Scheme Residency S1 Artspace Sheffield
Art House Wakefield Residency Wakefield
Bloc Group Members Show Bloc Projects Sheffield
Joint best in show Degree show Sheffield Hallam University
Fine Art B.A. Hons(First Class) Sheffield Hallam University
Group Exhibitions
2021
Matter Out of Place Material Voice Yorkshire Artspace Sheffield
2020
Animal pARTy Sheffield
2019
Flipped Art House Wakefield
What is The Matter Material Voice Collective Kelham Island Museum Sheffield
Painterly Exchange Yorkshire Artspace Sheffield
Ultra Modern Spittoon Yellow Arches Sheffield
2018
What Is The Sound Of Ice Melting The Grace Sheffield
DB8 Here For A Good Time Not A Long Time Lion Works Sheffield
Platform 18 Millennium Gallery Sheffield
Refraction Sheffield Institute of the Arts SHU
Fronteer Sheffield
3 FIGS, 4 VOICES, CERAMIC PROSTHESIS AND A STAIRCASE’ Research workshop by Michelle Atherton at Arebyte Gallery London
2017
Incorporation S1 Artspace Sheffield
Warriors Exchange Place Studios Sheffield
Adapted Exchange Place Studios Sheffield
Truthiness Bloc Projects Sheffield
Platform 17 Millennium Gallery Sheffield
2016
Touch Me DB8 Lion Works Sheffield
You’re Becoming A Pedigree Show DB8, Lion Works Sheffield
Platform 16 Millennium Gallery Sheffield
Here and Now Bloc Projects Sheffield