Jill Sampson

Dissolve

Dissolve is a mixed media exhibition by artist Jill Sampson, that explores the experience of Myeloma and the bio-medical body in parallel with the effects of human interventions on the land and its interconnected ecosystems. Through careful configurations of re-claimed objects and materials (agricultural, medical, domestic, natural), Dissolve stages moments of crisis and recovery – for the artist herself and for the natural world – finding sympathetic parallels, journeys of healing, and a fragile future held in human hands.

Sampson lives and works on her ‘Land for Wildlife’ family farm on Buyibara/Kaiabara country, Wakka Wakka Nation. It is where she grew up, maintaining a lifelong connection and has now returned to live. She manages small herds of beef cattle that live along-side wildlife, while caretaking the land for biodiversity. Her art practice has roots in Arte Povera, Environmental Art and Expressionism; being always embedded in the land and experience of her home place. 

Since 2020 Sampson has experienced extreme personal change through the effects, damage and treatment of Multiple Myeloma, an incurable blood cancer. While curiously observing her own cycle of disintegration and recovery she draws parallels with her experience of human driven changes to the climate, land and ecosystems of her home.

go to: Staying with the trouble, exhibition essay by Beth Jackson

opening event:
6 – 8pm Friday 30 January, 2026
(gallery will be open from 10am)
Logan Art Gallery

Dissolve
31 January – 28 February 2026
Foyer Galleries
Logan Art Gallery
Wembley Rd & Jacaranda Avenue, Logan Central QLD
Opening hours: 10am – 5pm Tuesday to Saturday.
ENTRY IS FREE.

Scroll through below for some of the work that will be exhibited (I will update with images of the rest of the artwork in the exhibition after I have them professionally photographed):