Yasmin Watts has long been drawn to the architectural forms that shape the environments around us and to the ways we move through and inhabit them. Her sculptural practice has grown from this awareness, exploring how space, light and structure are experienced through the body.

Born in London to Indian migrant parents, Watts has lived between different cultures and environments. Her Parsi Zoroastrian heritage and diasporic experience have contributed to an ongoing interest in memory, belonging and the relationship between people and the places they inhabit.

I sculpt with time and tension.
Each mark remembers something the body knew before language.

Watts studied sculpture at Heatherley School of Fine Art, completing her Diploma in Sculpture in 2022, where she was awarded the Richard Sharp Sculpture Prize and Sculpture Rosette Award. She went on to complete an MRes in Sculpture and Public Engagement at the Royal College of Art in 2023.

Her practice brings together hand and digital processes. Figures are initially sculpted by hand, then 3D scanned and printed before returning to the hand through sanding, joining and painting. Reclaimed materials are incorporated into the construction of spaces and surfaces, allowing traces of previous use to remain alongside the marks of making.

I don’t begin with answers.
I build to ask.
I layer until something begins to breathe.

Her work has been exhibited in London and elsewhere in the UK, including Vanner Gallery, Beaconsfield Gallery, Cooke Latham Gallery, Woolff Gallery, Brompton Cemetery Chapel and the Saatchi Gallery.

For Watts, sculpture has become a way of continuing a lifelong enquiry into how we inhabit space, carry memory and find a sense of belonging. Her work remains open, allowing meaning to develop through the relationship between body, material and place.

‍ ‍ Not forms to be read.
But spaces to feel,
to enter,
to remember.