Yasmin Watts is a sculptor whose work explores the relational space between body, material and memory. Rooted in architectural training and diasporic experience, her practice creates sculptural environments that invite reflection, intimacy and emotional presence.

Her installations combine human figures with architectural forms; creases, folds, thresholds, inviting viewers into spaces that are felt as much as seen. The work resists spectacle. It asks for closeness. For slowness. For recognition.

Each sculpture begins with tactile attention; paper sketches, hand-built models, rhythm in repetition. Materials like clay, plaster, ash and wood are shaped not only for structure but for memory.

Her practice creates sculptural environments that invite reflection, intimacy, and emotional presence. Surface becomes language. Light becomes breath.

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 care—one where material carries memory, where space offers shelter and where silence becomes a form of connection.

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