Artist Statement // Art is a tool for reflection, as it allows us to consider ourselves and each other reflectively through symbolic forms. Reflection, in itself, allows us to consider ourselves and each other through external perspectives. Reflections can move us, they can perhaps startle us, surprise us, or simply just make us look. Reflections can allow us to see something in ourselves and each other that we might not have seen before. Reflections can allow us to be able to feel or experience something of ourselves and each other that we may not have previously been aware of. Ultimately, I feel it is hoped, that through reflection, we can find a deeper understanding of ourselves and each other, even if it is for just a moment.

Sam Howie is an Adelaide-based visual artist and arts educator. His research as an arts practitioner is based on a material exploration of paint, particularly trying to find a balance between viewing paint through the lens of a psychologist, a physicist and an aesthete. Finding signs of the materials own ontology and how it responds in a variety of situations. Through these situations, his art becomes a philosophic, cultural and spiritual endeavour, questioning works of art in relation to our own existential situation. Howie has been exhibiting locally and interstate over the past 15 years, including being selected for exhibitions at FELTspace, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, the Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Format, as well as multiple exhibitions with the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia.

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Eleanor Scicchitano writes about Sam Howie in Neoterica 2024.

Sam Howie, Landscape with Figures 16, 2023, acrylic on paper, 448 x 420 cm. Sam Roberts Photography.