Sam Joseph is a UK-based visual artist, international award-winning filmmaker and designer whose artistic practice explores the intersections of sustainability, societal norms, and systemic inequalities, with a focus on gender-based violence within lived and public spaces. Sam highlights the resilience and strength of women and the need to challenge societal norms and gender stereotyping that perpetuates inequality. Sam's practice explores a sustainable layered response to social injustice through filmmaking, photography, expanded print, art, design and multimedia practices, critically examining societal structures and value systems, and her works have been exhibited/screened across the UK and internationally, including Italy, Canada, USA, Germany, France, Spain, India, Austria, Australia.
Engaging with the constructed nature of value, advocacy and space, Sam reveals a sensitivity to spatial dynamics and viewer interaction. Sam’s ability to bridge personal narrative, collective voice, and political urgency defines a vital and courageous contemporary practice.
Sam is a BA (Hons) Fashion Communication graduate of CSM and holds an MA in both Print and Interior Design from the Royal College of Art, where she is currently a doctoral practice-based researcher on the Architecture PhD programme. Sam is the founder of Sam Joseph Studios.
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Work featured
2026Killed Women Fallen Women Campaign
2026 Four Rooms; No Witness (split screen film), German Historical Institute, London
2026 (In)Visibility of the Erasure of Women & FALLEN, Imprint 2026, London
2026 FALLEN, Arte Laguna Prize, Venice
2026 Aesthetica Art prize York Art Gallery
2025 The Psychogeography of Reflected Temporary Spaces 1, The Graduate Art Show, Vanner Gallery, Salisbury
2025 The Psychogeography of Reflected Temporary Spaces 2, Small But Mighty, Bankside Gallery, London
2025 In/Visible: The Red Room Installation, RCA Summer Show, Battersea, London
2025 In/Visible installation, InBetweens, Southwark Park Galleries, London
2025 Visible Voices (installation and film), Co-Creating Wandsworth, The NEX
2025 (IN)VISIBLE, ReFrame superSATELLITE Residency, Exhibition and Presentation Evening, Wandsworth
2024 InVisible, Hockney Gallery, London (Curator)
2024 Behind Closed Doors, Hidden, House of Smalls Art Gallery, Edinburgh
2024 Why Did(n't) You Leave? (installation with film, Premiere), RCA Summer Show, Truman Brewery, London
2024 Space Debris, 4 People Collective, RCA
2024 Extracting Tungsten, Lighting Cinema, Upper Gulbenkian, RCA
2024 Why Did(nt) You Leave?, BBC Television Centre Big Screen Showcase, RCA
2023–2024 The Forgotten, The Not Seen and The Abandoned: Corners, HSBC Across & Over (exhibition and publication)
2023–2024 The Aesthetics of Tomorrow(s) Landfill, Hyundai Awards for Excellence in Sustainability and Creative Practice Exhibition, Rausing Research, London
