About

Seren Metcalfe (b.1997) is a Yorkshire-born artist, writer, and curator based in London. Her multidisciplinary practice spans performance, moving image, installation, sculpture, drawing, and text, exploring memory, time, labour, and connection.

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Through soundscapes, choreography, robotics, and lighting, she constructs immersive narratives that blend personal and collective histories, revealing the unseen rhythms of daily life. Writing is central to her process; evolving from walks, train journeys, and daily observations into soundtracks, poetry, and installations. She is drawn to the fluidity of time, where past, present, and future intersect, shaping both identity and cultural memory.

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Her work critiques societal structures, the mechanics of industry, and the spectacle of mass media, reframing music, television, and everyday objects to examine themes of aspiration, class, and resistance. Blurring fiction and reality, she explores how bodies become machines, identities are constructed, and daily life unfolds like a scripted performance.

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A DIY ethos runs through her practice working with what’s at hand, sourcing materials from the world around her, and making do with what is available. This urgency reflects a desire to materialise ideas before they disappear, embracing immediacy, imperfection, and resourcefulness as creative tools.

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She is the founder and director of The Working Class Creatives Database, curating exhibitions, residencies, and events in collaboration with institutions across the UK.

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At its core, her practice illuminates the unseen exposing the hidden choreography of labor, culture, and ambition.