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A cool control burn by myself and my father on our family farm during September 2025. We started to burn late afternoon and continued into the night. Below is a photo taken the day after the burn. Both photos by Malcolm Paterson
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.
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2025-ongoing
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.
2024/2025
MINE: What is ours in the wake of extraction
September 3 – December 13, 2024 & February 4 – May 15, 2025
Mechanical Hall Gallery – University of Delaware – Newark, Delaware USA
My artwork The Disappearing is one of ten international artworks selected by a jury and included in this exhibition.
“MINE: What is Ours in the Wake of Extraction presented artworks by the Etochime Harakbut artist collective from the Madre de Dios region of the southern Peruvian Amazon, an area heavily impacted by contamination from the illegal gold mining boom of the past 20 years. MINE also features works relevant to thematics of resource extraction by a juried selection of 10 international artists, alongside specimens from the Mineralogical Museum known as conflict minerals – mined resources that contribute to environmental harm frequently used to finance armed conflict and human rights abuses.
The exhibition was presented in collaboration with The ACEER Foundation, Amazon Aid, AWA and Studio Verde and was originally conceived by Patsy Craig. “
You can read more here.
view the Harakbut Artist Collection here.
view the juried selection here.
2023/2024 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.
2023/2024 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.
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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