Jill Sampson
Artist;
Bimblebox Art Project coordinator, https://bimbleboxartproject.com ;
Curator and coordinator of Bimblebox 153 Birds.
Jill Sampson is a mixed media artist whose work encourages a re-examination of history and explores: environmental themes, both personal and collective histories, land use change and stories. Sampson often uses objects and materials that provide a temporal connection through history, environment, people and place. Through further research she may uncover cultural, agricultural, historical or scientific information that informs her understanding, and that she then builds into the artwork.
Sampson lives and works on her ‘Land for Wildlife’ family farm on Buyibara/Kaiabara country, Wakka Wakka Nation. It is where she grew up, maintaining a lifelong connection and has now returned to live. She manages small herds of beef cattle that live along-side wildlife, while caretaking the land for biodiversity. Her art practice has roots in Arte Povera, Environmental Art and Expressionism; being always embedded in the land and experience of her home place.
Upcoming exhibition:
Dissolve
Dissolve is a mixed media exhibition by artist Jill Sampson, that explores the experience of Myeloma and the bio-medical body in parallel with the effects of human interventions on the land and its interconnected ecosystems. Through careful configurations of re-claimed objects and materials (agricultural, medical, domestic, natural), Dissolve stages moments of crisis and recovery – for the artist herself and for the natural world – finding sympathetic parallels, journeys of healing, and a fragile future held in human hands.
31 January – 28 February 2026
Logan Art Gallery
Wembley Rd & Jacaranda Avenue, Logan Central QLD
Opening hours: 10am – 5pm Tuesday to Saturday.
ENTRY IS FREE.
Staying with the trouble, exhibition essay by Beth Jackson
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Recent news:
2025- 2027
Cultural Burning at our family farm:
We are excited to be part of Firesticks Alliance groundbreaking project Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Resilience. This is a multi-year project that began in 2025. I’ve written a little bit about this here where you can also link to some of the videos. Go here for the project details.
2024/2025
MINE: What is ours in the wake of extraction
September 3 – December 13, 2024 & February 4 – May 15, 2025
Mechanical Hall Gallery – University of Delaware – Newark, Delaware USA
My artwork The Disappearing is one of ten international artworks selected by a jury and included in this exhibition.
“MINE: What is Ours in the Wake of Extraction presents artworks by the Etochime Harakbut artist collective from the Madre de Dios region of the southern Peruvian Amazon, an area heavily impacted by contamination from the illegal gold mining boom of the past 20 years. MINE also features works relevant to thematics of resource extraction by a juried selection of 10 international artists, alongside specimens from the Mineralogical Museum known as conflict minerals – mined resources that contribute to environmental harm frequently used to finance armed conflict and human rights abuses.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration with The ACEER Foundation, Amazon Aid, AWA and Studio Verde and was originally conceived by Patsy Craig. “
You can read more here.
view the Harakbut Artist Collection here.
view the juried selection here.
2023/2024
Podcast Interview:
I’ve been interviewed for the Queensland Women’s Environmental Champions Podcast series. The podcast explored my environmental work focused through the Bimblebox Art Project. I talk about my influences, challenges, successes and more. You can listen here:
Episode name: Environmental arts vital contribution to protect nature and climate stability.
Series: Queensland Women’s Environmental Champions
Recorded by Andrew Nicholson for @hope.inc.australia, on 27 November 2023.
Previously available on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and You Tube.
Queensland Women: Inspiring stories from Environmental Champions
This below essay was written for a Hope Australia Inc., project called Queensland Women: Inspiring stories from Environmental Champions. It is based on a series of questions that I was asked to respond to. It is available here.
photo credits for this essay can be found here.
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