Samantha Hobson b. 1981 Queensland

  • Artist (Painter)
Samanth Hobson of the Kuuku Yau language group of Lockhart River in the Cape York region of Queensland was born in 1981. A member of the Lockhart River Art Gang, Hobson is a painter who has exhibited in a number of exhibitions including 'Story Place' in 2003 at the Queensland Art Gallery.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 2007
Name
Samantha Hobson
Birth date
1981
Birth place
Queensland
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Active Period
  • 2000-
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
Yes
Initial Record Data Source
  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW

Samantha Hobson of the Kuuku Yau language group of Lockhart River in the Cape York region of Queensland was born in 1981. A member of the Lockhart River Art Gang, Hobson is a painter who has exhibited in a number of exhibitions including “Story Place” in 2003 at the Queensland Art Gallery and “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” in 2001 in Brisbane. In the 'Gatherings’ catalogue her artist statement reads, “I paint stories my grandmother tells me from the old days … paintings about traditional culture …. I paint the things that happen in the community … I paint about people in the community … what happens to them … what they do and what really hurts them… that makes me hurt inside too … that painting makes the bad feeling go away.” Hobson has works held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Cairns Regional Art Gallery.

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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Rosella Namok
1979
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Painter)
Original member of the Lockhart River Art Gang
When the Boys Light the Grass
Date
2005
Burn Grass Season
Date
2001
Stressed Out
Date
2000
Collections
Gatherings II
2006
Exhibition ()
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld.
Storyplace, Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest
2003
Exhibition ()
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld.
Gatherings
2001
Exhibition ()
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, QLD
Citations:
  • Demozay, Marion, (2006), Gatherings II, (Place: Keeaira Press, Southport, Qld.)
  • Demozay, Marion, (2001), Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia, (Place: Keeaira Press, Southport, Qld.)