Samantha (b.1988) is an emerging Australian Artist currently living in Googong on Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country. Household objects and plant life are recurring subject matter in her artworks referencing the commercialisation of nature and its connection to the thoughtless culture of disposability.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Emerging Creatives Group Show, Concurrent Gallery, Ngunnawal, Ngambri, Canberra, ACT
2022 Virtual Art Red Hill, Red Hill Gallery, Mornington Peninsula, Boonwurrung, VIC
2022 Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, St Kilda, Boonwurrung, VIC
2021 Sharing Stories, ANU SOA&D Gallery, Canberra, Ngunnawal, ACT
2021 Nature, Tebbs Contemporary Gallery, London, England
2021 Art as a Response to Mental Health, Doncaster Art Fair, London, England
2020 Deck the Halls with Affordable Art, Oak Hill Gallery, Mornington, Boonwurrung VIC
2020 Virtual Art Red Hill, Red Hill Gallery, Mornington Peninsula, Boonwurrung, VIC
2020 A Changing Landscape & The Female i, Van Der Plas Gallery, New York
2019 Graduation Exhibition, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Ngunnawal, ACT
2019 Bundian Arts Exchange with Arts ACT, Bundian Way Gallery, Delegate, Ngarigo, NSW
2017 Transcend, Raw Artists Australia, Belconnen Arts Centre, Ngunnawal, ACT
EDUCATION
2017- 2019 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Painting/Art History, Australian National University, Canberra, Ngunnawal, Ngambri, ACT
2012- 2013 Diploma of Commercial Art and Interior Design, CATC Design School (Think Education Torrens University), Yugambeh ,QLD
GRANTS
2019 ANU Community Organisation Grant, SEEF
AWARDS
2013 Professional Design Encouragment Award, Design Institute of Australia (DIA)
ARTS/MUSEUM INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
2017-19 Australian War Memorial, Visitor Services Officer / Volunteer Gallery Maintanence Team Member
2024-current National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Visitor Engagement Assistant
PUBLICATIONS
Reading Reflections, a selection of self-published responses to texts which inform her art practice