Jamie Howlett’s sculptures sit somewhere between nostalgia and unease; forms that appear playful and familiar, yet carry the weight of deeper anxieties.

Growing up on a steady diet of Saturday morning cartoons and American science-fiction television, Howlett’s imagination was shaped by exaggerated characters, simplified emotions, and visions of vast, unknowable futures. For him, the future once felt distant and electric and full of promise. As time has passed, that future feels flatter and more oppressive: a greying, cyberpunk-tinged reality that no longer delivers the excitement it once suggested.

His favoured material is concrete - an honest, ancient, permanent substance dating back to the Romans. Howlett combines this enduring human-made stone with contemporary digital processes, using 3D printing to make moulds that hold his ideas in physical space. 

His ideas emerge through a slow process of mixed influences - graphic design, illustration, animation, and personal experience, fermented over time until a form feels ready to exist.

Howlett’s sculptures balance humour with gravity, permanence with play. Ultimately, his hope is simple: that these objects find resonance and a place in the world.

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