Yasmin Watts is a British sculptor and architect whose work explores the relationships between material, memory and moral space. Rooted in her Parsi Zoroastrian heritage and diasporic experience, she creates sculptural environments that invite stillness, reflection and connection.

Her practice brings together architecture and sculpture to explore how form can embody care, presence and belonging. Figures and structures appear in dialogue, leaning, folding and listening, suggesting spaces of contemplation rather than display.

Each work emerges from an attention to process and material: clay, wax, plaster and wood shaped through repetition, patience and touch. Through this making, Watts translates spiritual and ethical ideas into tangible experience.

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

Surface becomes language. Light becomes breath.

Figures appear not as central monuments, but as murmurs. They lean. They listen. They reflect what it means to dwell in between: between cultures, spaces and selves.

I build to remember.
I carve to return.
I shape to hold what has no name.

Her work speaks to contemporary themes of belonging, migration, visibility and repair. Yet it does so through subtlety; through sculptural poetics that open space rather than close meaning.

Watts has exhibited across the UK, including the Vanner Gallery, Beaconsfield Gallery, Cooke Latham, and the Saatchi Gallery. She holds degrees in Architecture and Fine Art and has been awarded the Richard Sharp Sculpture Prize and the Sculpture Rosette Award .

Her practice offers a sculptural language of empathy and renewal, where material carries memory, and space becomes an act of listening..

These are not forms to be read.
They are spaces to feel,
To enter,
To remember.

Yasmin Watts interviewed by Victoria Charlton at The Graduate Art Show 2023, Woolff Gallery, discussing her exhibited sculpture.
Yasmin Watts' Micro-space sculpture at Brompton Cemetery Chapel, 2023—human form within an intimate frame evoking pause and reflection.
‘Inner-Outer Worlds’ by Yasmin Watts, 2023—an introspective sculptural space inviting pause, contemplation, and emotional resonance within an urban setting.

Recent exhibitions and events

2025 Micro-spaces: Sculpting and Belonging, Tickbird & Rhino, London, October.

2025 Notting Hill Visual Arts Festival, London, October.

2025 I am Human, designer and collaborator of the Wild Parlour 15 artists’ book, GLUE Book Fair, ICA, London, September.

2024 Pivotal: Digital, collaboration with Cem Hasimi, British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London, September.

2024 Micro-space, Vanner Gallery, Salisbury, January.

2023 Micro-space, Woolff Gallery, London, October.

2023 Micro-space, Brompton Cemetery Chapel, London, October.

2023 WAVES, ‘Earthwise’, Beaconsfield Gallery, London, July.

2023 Dialogues, ‘Inner Workings’, Cooke Latham Gallery, London, March.

2022 Cityscape Phoenix, Heatherley School of Art, London, July.

2022 White Noise, Heatherley School of Art, London, July.

2024 Interview at the Vanner Gallery Graduate Art Show:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6fuuUvEko0LHctZLVvNWbhsi=hFlwuEasRIieEBq6iieusQ&nd=1&dlsi=2afa0b515eb44e9f

2023 RCA2023 Show profile: https://research-biennale.rca.ac.uk/projects/public-sculpture-community-and-empowerment

2023 Interviewed by @behindtheartistt https://behindtheartist.co.uk/artist-interviews/artist-interview-yasmin-watts

2022 Sculpture Rosette Award, Heatherley School of Fine Art

2022 Richard Sharp Sculpture Prize, Heatherley School of Fine Art

‘Dialogues’ by Yasmin Watts, 2023—sculpted forms within an architectural setting, exploring presence and spatial thresholds. Exhibited in ‘Inner Workings’, Cooke Latham Gallery, London.
Yasmin Watts receiving recognition for sculptural excellence at Heatherley School of Fine Art, Summer Show 2022.