Samantha creates immersive installations that captivate spaces, invoking an overwhelming assortment of emotions as well as a mix of almost grotesquely vibrant colours and complete grayscale. Through a combination of mediums, she embarks on a quest to dissect, question, and reimagine the complex narratives that surround women’s health care, reproductive health and the patriarchal care industry that ignores and silences women’s pain.

Untouchable asks the viewer to question what it means to play with and decorate a person’s hair. It doesn’t just depict this girlhood but immortalises it in a sacred relic. Samantha sought to honour and reflect a space in which women can care and love one another through a symbolic act, affording the memories permanence. A space where women exist for each other is worthy of preservation. 

The Table provides a Morbid and gritty array of evidence that views can enter. Each print varies in how clear the image is printed creating fragments to be puzzled together as well as being greyscale to further invite the assumption that they are clinical and forensic evidence not to be touched. Samantha explores a ‘small-scale’ event to generate a wider commentary on the treatment of women and discrimination within healthcare.

I currently work in Gallery sales and media at Chequer House Gallery and look forward to completing a master’s degree in the future.