About Samba and I

Samba, three old women in Japanese, was formed by three of us who all went to University in our 50s and studied Fine Art amongst young UG students. We met through the TESTT studio space in Durham and worked together through group exhibitions focusing on Sustainability and Climate Change. However, we couldn’t realise our first solo exhibition planned in 2019 due to the Pandemic.  In 2024, for the first time since the Pandemic, we worked together on the Knitted Christmas Tree project and finally, we put this small but for us, very significant Samba solo exhibition, Precarious.      

It is reported: I love this piece by Samba - an artist collective made up three women who went back to university to study Fine Art in their 50s in order to fulfil their childhood dreams of becoming artists. And you can see it - and more of their incredible work - at Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery in a show entitled 'Precarious', which explores conflict and the precariousness of the survival of our planet ..