Ritual

Collect Art Fair

Stand S6

28 February - 02 March 2025

Previews: 26 & 27th February 2024

Elena Hoskyns-Abrahall

Sadie Clayton

Ruby Taglight

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SHAM Gallery is pleased to announce this presentation with Collect Art Fair 2025. Presented by Crafts Council, Collect is the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design.

The gallery will host Ritual, a site specific installation alongside wearables and interiors mini concept store “The Baby Sham”.

For the artists presented in ‘Ritual,’ a ritual is both a process and a guiding principle—a practice that transcends the mundane while grounding them in the present. Through their mastery of metal, a material rich in symbolism and history, both ancient and enduring, they delve into the complexities of human experience. Their works go beyond mere objects, inviting reflection on how we encounter devotion, transformation, power, identity, and belonging.

Elena Hoskyns-Abrahall

b. Edinburgh, UK

Elena's practice spans a wide variety of ideas and methods however they work predominantly in sculpture and performance, looking at themes relating to Gender, Identity Politics and Queer Theory. A narrative undercurrent often runs through their work, which they use as a framework for exploring a greater message or school of thought. Story-telling through performance and objects is key to Elena's practice.

Looking at the world through the lens of abjection, Elena uses this as a tool for exploring their human experience. Whether it be through objects or performance, the bodily and the repulsive become excellent tools for exploring the dysphoric nature of the human condition.

In 2023 Elena graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Sculpture. Recent exhibitions include: Cure 3, Bonhams, London, UK (2025), Fuego De Tierra, Alice Black Gallery, London, UK (2024), Charming, SHAM Gallery, Collect Art Fair, Somerset House, London, UK (2024), Soft & Hard: Beyond Recognition and Queer Coding, The Art House UK, Wakefield, UK (2023); The Witch’s Cave, Plop Residency, London, UK (2023); Across-Over-Beyond, Space Station Sixty Five, London, UK (2023); Royal College of Art MA Degree Show, The Truman Brewery, London, UK (2023); Soft & Hard: Beyond Recognition and Queer Coding, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK (2023); Raise Love, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK (2023); RCA WIP Show, Online (2022); We Won't Stop Showing, Set Woolwich, London, UK (2022); Too Much Fruit on the Cake, Take Courage Gallery, London, UK (2022); (2022); Artfem ‘Natura’, International Biennial of Macau, Albergue SCM, Macau, China (2020). Elena's work has been featured in The British Art UnCanon Archive, ‘a thing of beauty’ 92024), and the Wildstone Publication in collaboration with The Poorhouse Reading Rooms, Van Gogh House, Tate Archives, and the Freud Museum.

Elena was awarded The Gilbert Bayes Award in association with the Royal College of Art Sculpture Programme in 2023.

Sadie Clayton

b. West Yorkshire, UK

Sadie is a British sculptural artist specialising in working with copper metal exploring the intersection of spirituality, technology and remedial practice. Where the ethereal touches the engineered, the practice spans limitation, delving into both liminal and environmental spaces with equal measure for expansion, convalescence, rejuvenation, revival and play. Drawn back again and again to copper, a material renowned for its healing prowess and hygienic properties, Sadie’s affinity for this medium stems from her insatiable curiosity to sculpt at the intersection of dualities and probes the connections between the metaphysical and the mechanical. Her innate passion for the potential of copper imbues with a metaphorical femininity and quite literal radiance.

In 2013 Sadie graduated from Kingston University with a BA (Hons) in Fashion Design and went on to achieve her own label. While Sadie’s foundation is in fashion and design, she began working with copper and thus developed a signature application which is at once distinguished and yet mindful of the artist's consistent method and approach. Recent exhibitions include: Cure 3, Bonhams, London, UK (2025), Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2024), FACE x Horniman - Hair: Untold Stories, The University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (2024). Sadie’s work has been featured in a number of permanent public displays and commercial presentations including, Black Brick Club, South Africa (2023), Home of the Rose, Grizedale Forest, Lake District for Landmark, Sky Arts (2021), Sipsmith, London Craft Week (2020), A Vibe called Tech, Ai-Da, Tate Modern (2019), Ace Hotel, London Craft Week (2019), Pantone x Sadie Clayton (2018), Nixon Watches (2016).

Ruby Taglight

b. London, UK

Ruby is a British jeweller and metal artist. Her practice blends ornament and function, using lost wax casting to reinterpret stories through a feminine-queer lens. Drawing from mythology, superstition, medieval literature, and the Renaissance, the work explores the boundary of over-embellishment. The process is crucial. The deliberate act of casting wax into metal - quite literally - solidifies narratives, inviting interaction with each painstaking detail to reveal the story. Through use of the object, these stories are celebrated and brought to the forefront of the viewers experience.

In 2017 Ruby graduated with the Graduate Gemologist ® diploma from the Gemological Institute of America, USA. She also holds a BA (Hons) Fine Art and Printmaking from the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK. She has completed short courses from Alchima Contemporary Jewellery School, Florence, Italy and Intensive Jewellery Diploma, The London Jewellery School, London, UK. Recent exhibitions include: For the Love of Art History, Young Masters, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK (2025), Future Icons Selects, The Bargehouse, London, UK (2024), New Designers, Business Design Centre, London, UK (2023), QUEER, Diana Porter, Bristol, UK (2023), London Craft Week, Cockpit Arts, UK (2023), Shine, The Goldsmiths’ Centre, London, UK (2022), Jewellery/Costume, ISHTAR, debut film by Mica Georgis, funded by the BBC and ICA, London, UK (2021), The Jewellery Cut Live, The Royal Institution, London (2021)

Ruby was awarded Jewellery Designer of the Year by Stephen Webster in association with Skydiamond, New Designers (2023) & Stars in the Making Award by the Goldsmiths’ Centre (2022)