CV
Education, Clients, Exhibitions, Publications, Achievements
EDUCATION
2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours Class 1 - UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, AU.
2016 Student Exchange Program - Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. (September – December, 2016)
CLIENTS
2022 Randwick Council - The Spot Festival - Mural artist for Art Cube Installation
2022 Headspace Australia - Illustrator for Chameleon, a Headspace Visible Project, in collaboration with Jacob Woodford
2022 Sock Drawer Heroes - Illustrator for the Sock Drawer Heroes Chest Binder Fundraiser design.
2021 Adobe - Adobe MAX 2021, Adobe Insiders Collaborative Project: Joyfinity and Beyond
2021 Converse - Illustrator for Transgender Awareness Week,
2021 Converse ANZ - Illustrator for ‘Custom Chuck 70’s that celebrate the fluidity and exploration of gender identity and sexuality’ in support of Minus18
2021 LGBTQ Domestic Violence Awareness Foundation - Illustrator for Help & Support page. Illustrations commissioned by Ben Bjarnesen for his TEDx UQ 2021 talk on Domestic Violence in the LGBTQ community.
2021 Warner Music Australia - Illustrator for Mardi Gras feature of Rita Ora’s song ‘Bang Bang’ (X) (X)
2020 ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), Background Briefing podcast - Illustrator for ‘I’m Terrified: What it’s like as a Woman in a Men’s Prison’
2020 ACON Health Limited, Surry Hills, NSW AU - Illustrator for TransHub (collection of 50+ illustrations)
2019 UNSW Art & Design, Paddington, NSW AU - Illustrator for UNSW A&D Open Day 2019 Tote Bag Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Gender Euphoria Looks Good On You, Waverley Library, Bondi, NSW
2022 Gender Euphoria Looks Good On You, Packing Room Gallery: Sock Drawer Heroes HQ, Petersham, NSW
2021 Gay Boy, Imperial UP: The Imperial Erskineville, Erskineville, NSW
2020 Body in Retrograde, Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale, NSW
2017 How to be a Gender Explorer, Three Foot Square Gallery, Paddington, NSW
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Unravelling Queerly, Australian Design Centre, NSW
2023 Unashamed, Artspace Chatswood, Chastwood, NSW
2022 Mighty Real: Clifford Chance & Glamazon Pride Art Exhibition, M Contemporary Gallery, Darlinghurst, NSW
2022 Love Letters to the Horizon, SCASS Backspace Gallery, USYD, Darlington, NSW
2022 Drag in the Daytime, 107 Projects, Redfern, NSW
2021 YES Exhibition, aMBUSH Gallery, Waterloo, NSW
2021 Comic of Age, Emerging Writers’ Festival: Comics Exhibition, online (X)
2021 Lockdown Showdown, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2021 Soft Artifacts, Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale, NSW
2021 Midsumma & Australia Post Art Award, Midsumma Festival, No Vacancy Gallery, VIC
2021 Goodspace 6th Birthday, Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale, NSW
2021 Mardi Queer: Joy is Resistance, Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale, NSW
2021 YES Exhibition Pop-Up!, Luna Studio, Newtown, NSW
2021 Good To Be Back, Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale, NSW
2020 2020 Australia Pride Art, Clifford Chance and Glamazon, Sydney, NSW (Virtual Gallery)
2020 Mardi Gras Art Show, 50/50 Space, Woolloomoolloo, NSW
2019 YES Exhibition, The Spunky Bruiser Shop, Darlinghurst, NSW
2019 Working Out, Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale, NSW
2019 We Are Our Own Story: Arcus Pride Art Exhibition 2019, Clifford Chance, Sydney, NSW
2018 YES Exhibition, Tekminimal Gallery, Petersham, Sydney, NSW
2018 EMBODIED, New Moon Gallery, Lewisham, Sydney, NSW
2018 Enter the Picture: Emerging Sydney Artists, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2017 In Bloom: The Art of Becoming, 107 Projects, Redfern, NSW
2017 Kudos Emerging Artist & Designer Award, Kudos Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2017 Passage: Open Studios, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, NSW
2016 Nine; Tout Neuf, Galerie Espace, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
EVENTS
2022 Read To Me - Speaker Series: Comic Conversation Read to Me, Ashfield Library, Ashfield, NSW
2021 Queers of Joy Online: Online Trans & Non-Binary Community Event
2021 Queers of Joy: Celebrating Trans & Non-Binary Visibility, Red Rattler Theatre, Marrickville, NSW
2020 Other Worlds Zine Fair 2020, (online)
2020 Fire Relief Zine Fair Fundraiser, Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale, NSW
2019 Spring Makers Markets, UNSW Art & Design, NSW
2019 Read To Me: Late Night Library, Darlington Square Library, NSW
2019 LO-FI SCI-FI Art Market, Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios, Lane Cove, NSW
2019 Meet Me In The Pit Issue #3 Launch, Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale, NSW
2019 Read To Me, Knox Street Bar, Chippendale, NSW
2018 Print & Staple: Micro Zine Fair, Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale, NSW
2018 Other World’s Zine Fair, Marrickville Town Hall, NSW
2018 MCA Zine Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Rocks, NSW
2017 VOLUME 2017 Another Art Book Fair, Artspace, Woolloomooloo, NSW
2016 Expozine 2016, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2016 Concordia University Open House Print Sale, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
PUBLICATIONS & FEATURES
2022 ‘MATTER’ featured in Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia, Edited by Sam Elkin, Alex Gallagher, Yves Rees and Bobuq Sayed. Page 204-213
2021 ‘Vessel’, cover image for Bent Street 5.1 - Soft Borders, Hard Edges, ‘a special edition focusing on the trans and gender diverse community’. Edited by Sam Elkin, Yves Rees and Tiffany Jones
2021 ‘Same’, ‘Gay Boy: Wanting More’, ‘Trans Masc Semiotics’ featured in Trans Masc Diaries: Issue 1. (Page 26, 27, 28)
2020 ‘DIRT’ featured in Hag Magazine: Issue 3
2020 “Body in Retrograde” Featured in Bent Street 4.1: Love from a Distance: Intimacy and Technology in time of COVID-19, Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing and Ideas 2019, Edited by Jennifer Power, Henry Von Doussa, Timothy W. Jones, Series Editor-in-Chief Tiffany Jones. Page 121-129
2020 Featured on ACON’s TransHub Instagram as a takeover creator. 1-2 Aug
2020 Featured on That Way Instagram as a takeover creator. 25-31 Jan
2020 ‘Inside/Outside’ and ‘Home’ Featured in The Queer Stories Collective, Volume 1: ‘Awakening’. (Page 7-8)
2019 “Comfortable” and “In Transit: Space, Time” Featured in Bent Street 3: Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing and Ideas 2019, Edited by Tiffany Jones
2019 (RADIO) “Comfortable” Featured on All The Best Radio, Episode #1930 SHOW ME YOUR SCARS
2019 (RADIO) “Comfortable” Featured on FBi Radio’s Podcast Or It Didn’t Happen, Episode 2: GHOSTS
2019 Featured in How to Wait: An Anthology of Transition, Published in USA, edited by Sage Persing
2019 ‘An End Can Be A Start (If I ever Feel Better)’ and ‘Full Circle (The Good Side)’ featured in Meet Me In The Pit Issue 3 Comic Anthology.
2018 Comics from How to be a Gender Explorer series featured in Tharunka Magazine, Issue 6: Binary, August 2018. (Page 16-19)
2017 Comics from How to be a Gender Explorer series featured in Voiceworks Issue 110 ‘Immunity’ (Page 68-70)
2015 ‘Defying Gender’, Digital Drawing, featured in Tharunka Magazine, Issue: The Queer Issue.’ September 2015 (Page 20-21)
AWARDS & GRANTS
2022 Cayte Latta Memorial Award for Visual Arts, ACON Honour Awards 2022, $1000 Prize
2021 Highly Commended in 2021 AWARD WINNERS Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award
2021 Bronze Medal, The Society for News Design’s Best of Digital Design, 3b. Format: Use of Original/Commissioned Illustrations (multiple). For ‘I’m Terrified: What it’s like as a woman locked up in a men’s prison’, on behalf of Australian Broadcasting Corporation
2021 Award of Excellence, The Society for News Design’s Best of Digital Design, Category: Story Page Design: Gender/Identity & Social Issues. For ‘I’m Terrified: What it’s like as a woman locked up in a men’s prison’, on behalf of Australian Broadcasting Corporation
2017 Industry Commendation: The Art Scene UNSW Art & Design Annual Printmaking Award 2017, $1,000 Prize for art materials
2017 Highly Commended in Kudos Emerging Artist Award 2017, $500 Prize
2017 In Bloom: The Art of Becoming, $500 Artist Grant
MEDIA
2021 Interviewed for Cool Hunting, ‘Illustrator Samuel Luke Explores Gender Through Autobiographical Comics’, by Natalie Wallington
2021 Interviewed for Ask Aunty Podcast, ‘Ask Aunty with Amy McCarthy, Samuel Luke and Queer History with Antonio Mantonio’, July 31, by Queer As Fvck
2021 Interviewed for Fashion Journal Magazine, ‘This Converse shoe design is an ode to anyone going through a gender identity journey’, by Jonti Ridley
2021 Interviewed on The Current Motion: The Brekky Show Radio with DJ Naian, (June 1st)
2019 Interviewed for The Music Magazine Issue May 2019. (Page 26-27)