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A cool control burn on the farm organised and orchestrated by my Father and participated in by my children, myself and my Husband. Three generations working together. July 2019, photo Jill Sampson.
News:
Cultural Burning at our family farm:
we are excited to be part of Firesticks Alliance groundbreaking project Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Resilience. This is a multi-year project that began in 2025. I’ve written a little bit about this here where you can also link to some of the videos. Go here for the project details.
Podcast Interview:
I’ve been interviewed for the Queensland Women’s Environmental Champions Podcast series. The podcast explored my environmental work focused through the Bimblebox Art Project. I talk about my influences, challenges, successes and more. You can listen here:
Episode name: Environmental arts vital contribution to protect nature and climate stability.
Series: Queensland Women’s Environmental Champions
Recorded by Andrew Nicholson for @hope.inc.australia, on 27 November 2023.
Previously available on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and You Tube.
Queensland Women: Inspiring stories from Environmental Champions
This below essay was written for a Hope Australia Inc., project called Queensland Women: Inspiring stories from Environmental Champions. It is based on a series of questions that I was asked to respond to. It is available here.
I asked for the photo credits to be included, however they weren’t. So photo credits for this essay are as follows:
1. Jill Sampson at Bimblebox 153 Birds, 2019, photo by Steve Mardon.
2. Rakali, photo origin unknown, inserted by Hope Australia Inc.
3. Jill Sampson on Bimblebox Nature Refuge, 2013, photo Liz Mahood.
4. Eric Anderson and Diana O’Connor conduct a flora and fauna information walk at the 2023 Bimblebox art, science, nature camp, photo Malcolm Paterson.
5. Bimblebox: art – science – nature exhibition, 2014, photo Carl Warner.
6. Bimblebox 153 Birds exhibition, 2019, photo Steve Mardon.
About Me
Hi, I’m Jill, a contemporary artist and I live on a Land for Wildlife farm, near the tiny town of Maidenwell, in the foothills of the Bunya Mountains, Queensland, Australia. I will be writing about my artwork, the farm, living with cancer (Multiple Myeloma), wildlife and the environment.
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Floating nest on Boofy’s Dam
Floating Nest, Boofy’s Dam, Jan/Feb, 2022Australasian Grebe When I was home on the Farm earlier in the year I observed a floating Grebe nest on one of the farm dams. When I first saw it I thought it may be an old nest from which the chicks had already grown and left. However a week…
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