About




Sam Eyles is a Brisbane based artist who works predominantly in the mediums of painting and drawing. His abstract expressionist style, involves the layering of text and free flowing line work over an informed surface. In gestural strokes, layer upon layer of charcoal, pastel and paint build. The artist's original thoughts, reflections and questions begin to submerge beneath the reinvented surface. 

Eyles employs an ever evolving process based methodology to assist in the unpacking of past experiences. The nature of employing and wrestling with pre imposed process formulas, applied constraints, broken rules, and time spent questioning results in forms appearing organically on his surfaces. The artists' private conversation attempts to reconcile his past, become present and allow physical and conceptual space and time.There, ones mind can be free to stretch beyond the edges to a yet unseen, undiscovered future, and new narratives can take shape. 

His ultimate aim is to disrupt, deconstruct and remove self from his work in an attempt to create an inclusive and accessible space that is open to possibility. A space betwixt and between. A Liminal space , a lingering state of becomingness. A space where consciousness gives way to the subconscious and the universal themes of suffering , perseverance, character, faith , hope and Love are simultaneously forgotten, remembered and reconfigured into a newly enriched world view. 




EDUCATION

Tertiary
1997 – 2000
  • Bachelor of Visual Arts (Major: Painting). University of Southern Queensland
TAFE
1995
  • Advanced Certificate in Visual Arts. Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE
1994
  • Certificate in Visual Art and Design. Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE

PRIZES

2010
  •  Finalist , Redland Art Award, Redland Art Gallery, Redland Bay, Queensland


RESIDENCIES

2006 - 2012  
  • Artist in Residence, West End Community House, West End, Brisbane 
2011 - 2012 
  • Artist in Residence, Lotus Place, Micah Projects, West End, Brisbane
2011 
  • Artist in Residence, Ithaca Tafe, Red Hill, Brisbane


EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibitions


2019

  • Liminal Third Quarter Gallery , Petrie Tce, Brisbane


2015
  • Character Tree Art Space, West End, Brisbane 
2010
  • Perseverance (The Paintings) Jugglers Art Space, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
2009
  • Perseverance (The Drawings) Jugglers Art Space,
2008
  • 1/6 Jugglers Art Space
2003
  • Sam Eyles Savage, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2002
  • Infuse Lychee Lounge, West End, Brisbane
1999
  • Round 1 Art Matrix, Toowoomba
1998
  • Prototype Big Small Gallery, University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba


Selected Group Exhibitions



2018
  • On The Brink, Third Quarter Gallery, Petrie Terrace, Brisbane

2017
  • Process and The Temporary Studio, Jugglers Art Space, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
2016
  • Downlands 30th Annual Art Exhibition Downlands College, Toowoomba
  • Stairwell Project Art Auction Jugglers Art Space
2015
  •  Downlands 29th Annual Art Exhibition Downlands College, Toowoomba
2012
  •  Downlands 26th Annual Art Exhibition Downlands College, Toowoomba
  •  50/50, Fundraiser Exhibition, Jugglers Art Space, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
  • USQ Alumni Show, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba 
  • Open Fields, 100 Greenfield Gallery, Whitechapel, London 
2011 
  • LOVE LOVE Christmas Show, Love Love Studios, Teneriffe, Brisbane
2010
  • X Show Jugglers Art Space
  •  Jugglers Showcase for the 2010 Brisbane Artist Run Initiatives (BARI) Festival, Jugglers Art Space
  • Desperate Spaces P.S Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane
  • Downlands 24th Annual Art Exhibition Downlands College, Toowoomba
  • Sacs Appeal. Jugglers Art Space
  • Artist in Residence Showcase Jugglers Art Space
2009
  • X Show Jugglers Art Space
  • Jugglers Showcase for the 2009 Brisbane Artist Run Initiatives (BARI) Festival, Jugglers Art Space
  • Project 48 Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Art, Brisbane
2008
  • X Show Jugglers Art Space
  • Jugglers Showcase for the 2008 Brisbane Artist Run Initiatives (BARI) Festival, Jugglers Art Space
  • Artists in Residence Showcase Jugglers Art Space
2007
  • X Show Jugglers Art Space
  • 12” x 12” The Art of Being Jugglers Art Space
2006
  • X Show Jugglers Art Space
  • Works in Progress. E’merj Contemporary, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
2005
  • Uncommon Ground Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane
  • A Piece of the Action Soapbox Gallery
2004
  • Genesis V Bond University, Gold Coast
2003
  • Play on Play Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba
  • Recent Works Soapbox Gallery
2002
  • Genesis III Bond University
  • Art vs. Life Soapbox Gallery
  • Elements Metro Arts, Brisbane
  • Downlands 16th Annual Art Exhibition Downlands College, Toowoomba
  • Muse Soapbox Gallery
2001
  • 3 – Eyles Byrne & Plowman Empire Theatre, Toowoomba
  • Continuum University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
2000 
  • East Coast Sugar Soapbox Gallery