About
Photo by Bo Wong
Samantha Dennison is based in Albany/Kinjarling Western Australia and works across painting and ceramics to explore ideas of stillness, space, and place. Her practice draws on her background as an art teacher, potter and parent living and working in a regional community, and is underpinned by her interest in objects as containers of meaning and conveyors of narrative and identity.
Originally from Perth, Samantha studied Art Education at Edith Cowan University and graduated as a high school art teacher. In 2003, she held her first solo exhibition of landscape paintings. Since her move to Albany in 2012, Samantha has concentrated on still life painting and ceramics.
Samantha won the City of Albany Acquisitive Award in the Great Southern Art Award 2023 and was a Finalist in the 2024 Mandorla Art prize, 2023 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, The Jury Art Prize, and the York Botanic Art Prize in which she won Highly Commended. Samantha’s work is held in the Royal Perth Hospital Collection and private collections in Australia and internationally.
Samantha Dennison is represented by Flinders Lane Gallery in Melbourne Victoria, and Linton & Kay Galleries in Perth Western Australia.
Photo by Bo Wong