Artists

Lizzy Sampson’s practice focuses on subtleties and incidental details as she isolates moments or words as a way of homing in then amplifying, so that small details are used to represent or reveal something bigger about the structures and systems we live within.

She is interested in making with paint, video, photography and words, and improvising with performative elements and materials including found objects. Her interdisciplinary practice has included working in public space, with communities, in collaborations and within institutional settings. Recently she has co-written about the politics of care relating to parenting in the arts (Soiling the White Cube in Care, Ethics and Art), and on class in the arts, (No One Here Talks About Class, in The Relationship is the Project).

In Residence at Bundanon

After nine years of parenting, working and making art part-time, I’m entering a new phase of creative re-engagement. The residency offers a rare and valuable pause – a chance to reflect, experiment, and re-establish a sustainable rhythm for making, one that can coexist with caregiving and other life commitments. To support this re-entry, I’ll be working within a the framework ‘This Might Take Awhile’. It’s a quietly humorous nod to the slow, to unseen labours, to time-use and to bureaucratic inefficiency. Through poetic, absurd, and deliberately unproductive gestures, I’ll explore what it means to make work that resists urgency and instead honours attention and noticing.