Scented Traces: Crafting a Scent from Memory

(In)visible Body

Create your own scent from memory in an immersive workshop with artist Claire Sunho Lee and perfumer Jon Kempton.

107 Guilford St

<h3> Scented Traces: Craft a Scent from Memory</h3><h3>14:00 - 16:00 27 April 2025 </h3><h3> </h3><h4>Overview</h4> Some memories resist clarity. They linger at the edges of language, felt rather than seen, sensed rather than said. They return not through images or words, but through sudden waves of unease, tenderness, or recognition. Scent, more than any other sense, has the power to unearth these buried fragments. It collapses time and bypasses logic, transporting us before we can understand why.In this interactive workshop, artist Claire Sunho Lee and perfumer Jon Kempton (4160 Tuesdays) invite participants on a sensorial journey into memory. Through a series of guided olfactory experiences and scent blending exercises, participants will explore how fragrance can stir memory and emotion and give form to the formless.Each participant will leave with a unique scent composition—a personal distillation of memory, emotion, and imagination.

<h3>Biographies</h3><h4> </h4>Jon KemptonJon Kempton has worked with fragrance and aromas for the last five years. He has been working at 4160 Tuesdays for the Fairy Godmother of independent perfume makers Sarah McCartney has given him the opportunity to explore the more experimental side of fragrance. He has collaborated on projects with artists and musicians to create fragrances for exhibitions and preferences and is particularly interested in artistic applications of scent.As a carer for someone with dementia, Jon also has an interest in scent and memory. Particularly the ability aromas have to keep treasured memories alive and to help unlock forgotten ones. Claire Sunho LeeClaire Sunho Lee’s practice engages with seeing various meanings within one “reality” by questioning acceptable norms. She sees “normal” as what one knows based on the perspective(s) they have rather than being defined in one way or another. Through the means of rules, logic, and algorithms, she examines psychological complications, human conditions, trauma, and more.Claire received her BFA degree in Photography and Imaging from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University in 2017 and received her MA degree in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 2021. Her recent achievements include a group exhibition with Photographic Exploration Project, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, V.O Curations and Cromwell Place, features on ArtDoc Photography Magazine, TOFU Magazine, VOGUE Italia and Musée Magazine, grants from the Photoworks x MPB R&D Seed Grants, Grand Prix from IMA-Next, and shortlist from Lumen Prize. She recently gave artist talks at Southbank Centre hosted by Arts &amp; Health Hub and online hosted by Bethlem Gallery. Claire is currently a fellow of the Jacob Fabrikant Creative Fellowship in Health Humanities 2025/2026 at UCL.

<h4>it's a local collective</h4> It’s a local collective is a London based art/architectural collective about creating objects/buildings that bring people together. The studio works at the intersection of architecture, art, and anthropology, delivering architectural installations, exhibition designs and public programmes. From social furniture for Network Rail to a contemporary bath house for Malin+Goetz, the studio is interested in domesticating public spaces to prioritise social integration and well-being.The gallery of it’s a local collective is housed in a Georgian Townhouse in Bloomsbury, London. Specialising in contemporary art with an emphasis on translating research through art, its curatorial projects bring together a unique portfolio of emerging and established contemporary artists, such as Yushi Li, Kechun Zhang, Yuxiao Ran, and Jia Xi Li among others. The studio’s projects have been featured in Architects’ Journal, Archdaily, Elle Decor, Stir, Wallpaper* and more.

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