Creativity and Resilience Future Community Dinner | Melbourne University | 04/04/22 - 11/09/22
Solo show - Simpson Gallery- Benalla Art Gallery | Initial Suspicions | 22/09/18 - 21/10/18
Interview with Lesley Dolphin | BBC Radio Suffolk | Suffolk Voices | Aldeburgh Festival 2018
A brief interview with Lesley Dolphin from BBC Radio Suffolk in readiness for the opening of Aldeburgh Festival and my sound installation Suffolk Voices on Friday 8th June 2018. The interview begins at 30 minutes and goes for ten minutes or so. The festival is on from 8th-24th June, I hope you can make it!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p067b8mb
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p067b8mb
Suffolk Voices | Aldeburgh Festival 2018 | 8th-24th June 2018
The sound installation, 'Suffolk Voices' provides insight into the changing/dying traditional Suffolk accent and acknowledges the range of accents of current, often long term residents.
'Suffolk Voices' will feature in the Pond Gallery at Snape Maltings, as part of Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts. This project has taken a few years to form and will be installed as a solo show. The creation of this sound installation, has had much support from Australian and British communities, and without the support of Snape Maltings for their research and development residency last year it would be a very different project.
Suffolk Record Office have also been hugely supportive and generous in allowing the original recording of the Suffolk Fisherman, from their oral histories collection, to be used.
'Suffolk Voices' will feature in the Pond Gallery at Snape Maltings, as part of Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts. This project has taken a few years to form and will be installed as a solo show. The creation of this sound installation, has had much support from Australian and British communities, and without the support of Snape Maltings for their research and development residency last year it would be a very different project.
Suffolk Record Office have also been hugely supportive and generous in allowing the original recording of the Suffolk Fisherman, from their oral histories collection, to be used.
Article in the Eastern Anglian Daily Times | 19 September 2017
The East Anglian Daily Times came to the open afternoon at the culmination of my residency at Snape Maltings and wrote this article.
Click here to read.
Thanks to EADT, all attendees, supporters, Snape Maltings, family and friends, who made this possible.
Interview with Lesley Dolphin at BBC Radio Suffolk | Monday 11th September 2017
Click here to listen
Open afternoon to conclude residency | Sunday 10th September 3pm | Snape Maltings
Samantha Heriz is a contemporary international artist, British by origin (Suffolk) and settled as an Australian in rural Victoria.
Trans/Muting Suffolk tells the tale of a dying English accent. Today’s Suffolk residents speak with diverse accents and the voice of Suffolk is changing. This project will heighten awareness of the dying Suffolk accent through creation of an immersive installation of dialect for the general public. Using the Heritage Lottery digitized collection, Suffolk Voices Restored, Samantha will pair current residents to speak the words of turn of the century voices . The same words, with varying voices, will play through speakers to create an immersive soundscape telling of past and present Suffolk.
Following her residency, Samantha invites you to come and explore what she has discovered and to share your own stories of the changing Suffolk accent, both from the perspective of those native to the area and those that have moved to the area from elsewhere. Come for a chat, tea and cake, and an opportunity to see what Samantha has created so far. Joining her will be Suffolk entertainer Charlie Haycock, local enthusiast John Murphy, and the Suffolk Fox, Mavis.
https://snapemaltings.co.uk/whats-on/transmuting-suffolk-open-afternoon/
Trans/Muting Suffolk tells the tale of a dying English accent. Today’s Suffolk residents speak with diverse accents and the voice of Suffolk is changing. This project will heighten awareness of the dying Suffolk accent through creation of an immersive installation of dialect for the general public. Using the Heritage Lottery digitized collection, Suffolk Voices Restored, Samantha will pair current residents to speak the words of turn of the century voices . The same words, with varying voices, will play through speakers to create an immersive soundscape telling of past and present Suffolk.
Following her residency, Samantha invites you to come and explore what she has discovered and to share your own stories of the changing Suffolk accent, both from the perspective of those native to the area and those that have moved to the area from elsewhere. Come for a chat, tea and cake, and an opportunity to see what Samantha has created so far. Joining her will be Suffolk entertainer Charlie Haycock, local enthusiast John Murphy, and the Suffolk Fox, Mavis.
https://snapemaltings.co.uk/whats-on/transmuting-suffolk-open-afternoon/
CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN SUCCESSFUL- WE'RE OFF TO SUFFOLK!
Thank you so much for all those that supported the campaign. I'm very excited to make the artwork for everyone and to be heading to the UK later this year to start to make this work- An immersive sound installation of accent! #savethesuffolkaccent !
If you want to be involved in the project feel free to contact me, below:
If you want to be involved in the project feel free to contact me, below:
#savethesuffolkaccent | Sound installation of accent | Trans/Muting Suffolk, UK |
<<Campaign launch less than two weeks away >>
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With two interviews in a week (from different hemispheres), it seems the project is quite interesting to people. I've also had many local people contacting, touched by the project and their own experiences with the loss of the accent. Sign up to hear first when the campaign launches on the home page. Click the link to go to the article. http://www.sheppnews.com.au/2017/05/24/90280/accent-is-on-suffolk |
The Museum of Lost Public Notices | George Paton Gallery | Melbourne | 24 May- 2 June 2017
Regional Arts Victoria and Pozible Mentorship
I am lucky enough to have won a mentorship with Pozible and Regional Arts Victoria, to develop crowdfunding for my project Trans/muting Suffolk: The attrition of the Suffolk accent. The project will raise awareness about the dying Suffolk accent, through an immersive sound installation of accent! This project is already being made quietly, but will be fully developed later this year, with a research and development residency at Snape Maltings, a major Music and Arts Organisation in the UK
Cultivate Gallery | London | 24 April 2017| Something BlackI'll be screening my video 'Dawn in a Dark Room' for a limited time here, in line with the online exhibition. 
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Alternative Art School Fair | AltMFA | New York | 19-20 Nov 2016
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AltMFA are taking part in debates and discussions around alternative arts education. A selection of the artists work, plus a specially made AltMFA recipe book, to which I have contributed. Plus my publication, Scores to Life to is available to view.
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Multi-function | Alt MFA online group show| GalleryELL - New York |25 July- 23 Oct 2016
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Numerical Comparisons, showing online at Gallery ELL, New York
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Revelation19 Perth International Film Festival | Premiere 'Thetta Reddast: It Will All Work Out Okay'
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EXPERIMENTAL SHOWCASE
Revelation’s annual selection of experimental films sees a combination of found footage works, visual and aural manipulations, micro-documentaries, and more. Dancing with the limits of cinema and film, exploring the processes of listening to film, the nature of meaning and the potential joys of visual pleasure. Sun 10 July, 6.45pm, Luna Sun 17 July, 1.15pm, Luna |
Postcards from (and to) Great Yarmouth | Original Projects | 25 June - 17 July | Thursday - Sunday, 12 - 6pm
Yarmouth By The Sea from Samantha Heriz on Vimeo.
The exhibition will launch this weekend, Saturday 25 June to coincide with 1 WOW OF A TIME 😮 ! - The Great Yarmouth Day Trip (2 -5pm)
Come find us at:
Shop Unit 1, The Jetty
Marine Parade
Great Yarmouth
NR30 2ES
The exhibition presents over 90 works from over 60 artists. Each piece will be available to buy for £25, with all proceeds going towards originalprojects; rolling developments.
Come find us at:
Shop Unit 1, The Jetty
Marine Parade
Great Yarmouth
NR30 2ES
The exhibition presents over 90 works from over 60 artists. Each piece will be available to buy for £25, with all proceeds going towards originalprojects; rolling developments.
Antipodes | Kaoni Arte & Terapia |Barcelona | 21 June 2016- 11 July 2016
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TAKT Berlin | Unobtrusively Obvious | 17 June 2016- 26 June 2016
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Tölurnar (The Numbers) Screening | Southend Film Festival | From 24th May
Revelation Perth International Film Festival July 2016
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I'm excited to say that my video 'It will all work out ok' will be premiered at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival in July 2016. This is a video which I made on residency at Gullkistan in Iceland, and I am very excited to be included in this impressive film festival. |
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Residency TAKT Berlin | April 2016
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I'm hoping to make work concentraing on overlooked, ephemeral, poetic features of the old GDR/DDR |
Open Screening | Whitechapel Gallery, London | 17 March 2016 | 5-6.30pm
Read what you look at |
Text Art | Brunswick St Gallery | Melbourne |
27 Nov - 11 Dec 2015
Opening 27 Nov 8-9pm
Featuring my book Scores To Life To
Text Art | Brunswick St Gallery | Melbourne |
27 Nov - 11 Dec 2015
Opening 27 Nov 8-9pm
Featuring my book Scores To Life To
Curiouser #6 | 14 November 2015 |Curiouser (Brussels) hosted by The Space (UK)
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Firstsite : Colchester, Essex, UK | Open exhibition | 3rd Oct-22 November 2015
Preview on 2nd October: My video 'Think Nothing' will be shown.
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*** Residency at Gullkistan, Iceland for October 2015 ... WoW ! ***
Portrait | The Bank, Eye, Suffolk, UK | 3 Sept- 18 Oct 2015
I have an experimental performance video in this exhibition, from my early days in my Masters of Fine Art -> down in The Vault at The Bank in Eye, Suffolk.
This Fear - Fears This |
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Homage | The Food Court | Melbourne | 02 Sept-10 Sept 2015
I'll be showing a video as Homage to Chantal Akerman, a great inspiration for my work.
A subtitled video of my work with audio in french and editing techniques from her film Je, tu, il, elle.
A subtitled video of my work with audio in french and editing techniques from her film Je, tu, il, elle.
Residency for October 2015 in Iceland
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'Scores to Life to' will be featured at VOLUME 2015 | ANOTHER ART BOOK FAIR | represented by Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne |11-13 September at The Gunnery Building, Sydney.
Now available also on Amazon.com
Dawn in a Dark Room | Solo Show | Brunswick Arts | opening 29 May 15- 6-9pm
Antipodes | opening Wednesday 11th February 2015 -9pm | Conduit Arts
Antipodes |Spanish and Australian art collaborations | Conduit Arts |11-22 Feb 15
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These are screenshots from my video work. I created with Spanish artist Mario Santamaria to produce new work from our highly contrasting video practices.
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Creative Moreland website launch | One night |Brunswick Arts| 28 Nov 14 6-8pm
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Showing my video: 'This is it'
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A show of text work! Come see! | 'No Comment' at Upstairs at The Napier | Fitzroy | 6-23 Nov 2014
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New book of my Instructional, Word and Text Art
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Dookie Earthed | 4th October 2014 12pm-12amI have made a durational video (Title: Earth Seep) which will feature in the Arts Walk, in the evening. It's a site specific video, taken over many weeks, in the seemingly dry and barren quarry. The video can be seen projected onto an abandoned house, on the walk from the main town to the quarry venue.
The whole arts event is going to be an amazing day and evening filled with music, art and performance. 
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Seventh Gallery | Gertrude St, Fitzroy | Yellow Flowers | Night Window from 6pm daily | until 27th September 2014
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Image credit: Darcy Gladwin
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The video shows a single shot video of sourgrass. The mundane ‘weeds’ move gently in the wind, light changes, but nothing much happens. The words and phrases ‘yellow flowers/here are some yellow flowers/these are yellow flowers’ appear randomly and at different locations and in differing styles, rhythms and speeds. Through duration I explore attention to subtle aspects in our environment, ones ability to extend viewing of things usually glanced at. The drawn out focus, meaningless use of language and subtle humour are used vehicles to find an internal, unspoken mental space. |
August 2014I'm very excited to be involved in a collaboration with my old Tamalpa Institute classmate Maria-Theresa Barbist. MT is Austrian and currently residing in California; she has just completed her Masters of Fine Art in New Genres at San Francisco Art Institute.
We are working with the old and the new in this collaboration. Our practices have evolved since parting ways, and whilst I predominantly focus on video, MT is working through performance, sculpture and film. Exchanging 'scores', developed through our Tamalpa knowledge we will create work in our new media... where will it go?... Nobody knows... |
Maria-Theresa: initial draft experiments
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Samantha J Heriz: initial draft experiments
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July 2014
In.ter.face| D11 Docklands
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A group exhibition at D11. July 26th-August 9th. Featuring my work 'More than Then", in.ter.face is an eclectic group show responding to the following text:
“ The common boundaries or interconnections between systems, equipment, concepts and human beings often enable separate or incompatible elements to come together harmoniously whilst drawing attention to the problems that individual entities can hold. in·ter·face is an exhibition that explores the commonalities and tensions that make up these boundaries, interactions and communications whilst examining how individual entities are defined by their relationship with the outside world.” |
February 2014
//ANTIPODES ARTISTS ANNOUNCED//
'Congratulations to the participants of Antipodes. There was such an amazing response to the call for artists, unfortunately not everyone was able to be included. 16 artists living in Spain and Australia were arranged into 8 pairs. All show a strong link in some part of their practice which will make for an engaging collaborating and mentoring process.'
Antipodes is a collaborative project between artists living in Spain and Australia that compares the experience of location from the viewpoint of artists living at opposing sides of the world. Paired artists will have a paralleled aspect of their practice such as medium, concept, desired audience; providing the artists with the possibility to discuss, workshop and respond to each others environment, practice and project.
Each artist will produce a work in any medium responding to the theme Antipodes, at the same time artists will support each other as mentors. Resulting works are to be included in a touring exhibition in Spain and Australia in early 2014. Antipodes project and exhibitions will be co-curated by Almudena Caso, Jessica Donelan and Elina Gault.
Each artist will produce a work in any medium responding to the theme Antipodes, at the same time artists will support each other as mentors. Resulting works are to be included in a touring exhibition in Spain and Australia in early 2014. Antipodes project and exhibitions will be co-curated by Almudena Caso, Jessica Donelan and Elina Gault.
Mailbox 141 installation
January 7th- February 7th 2014
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Bah Humbug... Christmas show at D11 Docklands
Christmas show t D11...some great artists and the theme 'Bah Humbug'. Come along to the opening 14th December 5-9 (see homepage for my video contribution). Merry Christmas!
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Wednesday 27th November 2013, 6-8 pm.
Come along to the Masters in Fine Art Graduate Show opening night! Don't worry if you miss the night, it'll be on until 6th December! http://rmitmfa.com/ |
THINGS WILL BE A LITTLE QUIET HERE, WHILST I FOCUS ON FINISHING MY MASTERS IN FINE ART... BACK NOVEMBER!
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September 15th 2013
Oh God A one night performance, video and live art event ...featuring my video art, with a very original use for my yogic training... "Whether or not you believe in a higher power, God/s in all their multitude of incarnations have had a direct influence on the behaviour and development of humankind from the very beginning. These artists take the idea of God and smash it, worship it, plead with it, defile it and whip it into a kaleidoscopic frenzy of performance, video and live art. Curated by Phil Soliman, featuring work by Melbourne’s brightest (and darkest) talents." |
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August 29th-September 12th 2013
Fear A show from Coalesce ARI running at D11 in Docklands curated by Phil Soliman: I have a performance video in this exhibition, based upon my Butoh and Anna Halprin training. "Fear has affected mankind and all that we do since the dawn of time, something so ingrained in our subconscious that sometimes it goes completely unnoticed, despite its intensely powerful effects. Eleven artists working across painting, sculpture, performance, video and installation, from all stages in their careers, face their worst fears: fear of failure, of the unknown, of social confrontation, of dying, of living, of clowns, of hell, of family, of nothing in particular, just fear in its pure form, stripped of all context". |
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I often describe my practice as a search for a visual Zen Koan. I wondered therefore, if it would help me to discuss my work with a Zen master. I guess Zen is less about discussing and more about doing. This was the response I kindly received:
"There is such a thing as people with knowledge about Zen. But that's nothing much to do with Zen. The intersection between Zen and art is interesting. It can be as real and relevant as anything else." I love it! Seikan, Melbourne Zen Centre, http://www.zen.org.au/ |
Documentation / installation of video 'With this...'
photo credit: Darcy Gladwin |
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August 10th 2013
Coalesce Collective have a one night only house party art show.... Saturday 10th August 4-6pm... I'll be showing my work 'This Sleep is both Contemporary and New'... come along! http://www.coalesce.net.au/calls-for-artists.html https://www.facebook.com/events/340033609462585/?fref=ts |
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Some good news: Gulkistan, Iceland residency: I've been accepted for May 2014, great news! Here's their website...http://www.gullkistan.is
July holidays... both exhibitions were a great experience and are now over... check out my latest work 'Five more' in the video projects section
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June 19th -June 28th 2013
June is set to be a busy month with two shows coming up! The first is a group show at RMIT University School of Art Gallery. This show opens on 19th June 2013 5-7 and is a very exciting opportunity. Curated by Dr Laresa Kosloff and Rhett D'Costa, the theme is 'PEOPLE WHO NEED PEOPLE'. I am showing a participatory word art piece and there are a lot of excellent artists included in the show. It includes 5 artists from Hong Kong and 5 from Melbourne, Australia. 
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June 21st- July 7th 2013:
The second show in June 2013 is a group show for the collectice Coalesce ARI. This is really exciting as it involves each artist collaborating with a non-artist. I am working with a very talented Landscape Architect and we are both challenging our thinking to develop a really intriguing piece. The show opens on 21st June 2013 at Brunswick Arts Space http://www.coalesce.net.au/border-crossers.html |
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