​ARTIST STATEMENT

British/Australian artist Samantha Heriz’ practice seeks to express the overlooked in our fast paced society. Duration, time and juxtaposition are developed through images of subtlety in nature to highlight quiet internal states of mind and disturbance. Heriz' practice is diverse, but recent works have developed through durational video and poetic text as subtitles. Samantha utilises training in Butoh, meditation, performance and linguistics as the basis for her work. She completed her Masters of Fine Art at RMIT, Melbourne. She regularly exhibits and performs internationally.

Visual art (selected shows)
  • 2024: Group Show, Remnants, Objects and Memories, SAM Shepparton Art Museum (current)
  • 2018: Solo Show, Benalla Art Gallery, Australia
  • ​2018: Suffolk Voices, Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, UK
  • 2017: The Museum of Lost Public Notices, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2017: Curiouser #08, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2017: Something Black, Cultivate Art Gallery, London, UK
  • 2016: Multi Function, AltMFA, GalleryELL, New York
  • 2016: Revelation: Perth International Film Festival, Perth, Australia
  • 2016: Postcards to (and from) Great Yarmouth, Original Projects, Great Yarmouth, UK
  • 2016: Antipodes, Kaoni Arte & Terapia, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2016: TAKT Tapir Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • 2016: Southend Fringe Film Festival, UK
  • 2016: The Film Café, The Beecroft Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
  • 2016: Open Screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
  • 2015: Read What You Look At, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2015: Open Exhibition, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
  • 2015: Curiouser #6, Electro Studios Project Space (ESPS), St Leonards-on-Sea, UK
  • 2015: Portraiture, The Bank, Eye, Suffolk, UK
  • 2015: Volume 2015, Artspace, Sydney (represented by Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne), Australia
  • 2015: Homage, presented by Coalesce ARI, The Food Court, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2015: Dawn in a Dark Room, solo show, Brunswick Arts, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2015: Antipodes - Spain/Australia, Conduit Arts, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2014: Yellow Flowers, solo show, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2014: Some Words and Images: solo show, Mailbox 141, Melbourne
  • 2014: Creative Moreland Launch Exhibition, Brunswick Arts, Melbourne
  • 2014: No Comment, Upstairs at the Napier, Melbourne
  • 2014: Dookie Earthed, Video, Projection and Performance Festival, Victoria, Australia
  • 2014: In.ter.face, Coalesce ARI, D11, Melbourne
  • 2013: Bah Humbug, D11, Melbourne
  • 2013: Oh God, Hares and Hyenas, Performance, Video and Live Art night, Carlton, Melbourne
  • 2013: Fear, Coalesce ARI, D11 Gallery, Docklands, Melbourne
  • 2013: Ascend/Descend, Coalesce ARI, 9 Johnson St, Northcote, Melbourne
  • 2013: Border Crossers, Coalesce ARI, Brunswick Arts, Melbourne
  • 2013: People who need people, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Curated by Dr Laresa Kosloff and Rhett D'Costa, Melbourne
  • 2013: Entry 2013, Brunswick Arts, Melbourne
  • 2012: Art in Real Life, Coalesce ARI, Melbourne
  • 2012: Interpretations of Intimacy, Coalesce Collective, Open Space Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2012: The Sketchbook Project 2012
  • 2012: The Linden Postcard Show, Linden Arts Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2011: Belle Arti Award Show (shortlisted), Chapman and Bailey Gallery, Collingwood
  • 2011: The Brunswick Show, Donkey Wheel Gallery, Melbourne

Academic/Formal Education (Selected)
  • 2013: Masters of Fine Art (with Distinction): Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2011: Planetary Dance Facilitation Certification, trained by Anna Halprin (American Pioneer of Dance, Choreography and Expressive Arts), California, USA
  • 2011: Movement Based Expressive Arts Therapy and Education, Level 1 and 2 Certification, Anna Halprin/Tamalpa Institute, California, USA

Residencies
  • 2017: Snape Maltings, UK
  • 2016: Takt, Berlin
  • 2015: Gulkistan, Iceland

Additional information
  • 2017: Awarded Pozible and Regional Arts Victoria Mentorship program
  • 2015- : Alt MFA London, Alternative Masters of Fine Art program
  • 2012-13: Co-director, Coalesce Artists Collective (ARI), Melbourne
  • 2012: Guest Artist, Envelope Atlanta, http://envelopeatlanta.com/?page=3
  • 2012: Belle Arti Prize, Shortlisted

Professional bodies:
  • National Association of Visual Arts (Australia)
  • Regional Arts Victoria (Aus)
  • Viscopy/Copyright Agency (Aus)
  • Higher Education Academy (UK)

Performance
  • 2014: The centre that I can not find is known to my unconscious mind, Gabrielle New Performance, D11, Melbourne.
  • 2012: Butoh Performance, Federation Square, Melbourne
  • 2011: Independent Expressive Art Educator, somatic movement, score development, critical analysis
  • 2011: Butoh Performance, Tony Yap Company, Melbourne, Northcote Uniting Church, Melbourne
  • 2011: Public performance, Anna Halprin’s Advanced Performance Lab, The Castro, San Francisco

Movement training
  • Butoh training and Performance, Tony Yap Dance Company
  • Jillian Pearce, improvisation and somatic awareness training, Y Space
  • Improvisation, Performance and Body Mind Centering, Alice Cummins, Master Teacher in Dance
  • Improvisation, Performance and Somatic Investigation, G. Hoffman Soto, Master Teacher
  • Improvisation and Dance, Anna Halprin; Pioneer of Post Modern Dance; meeting life as art through choreography