Samuel Massey is an artist working in Coburg, Victoria.

 

Massey is an award-winning artist who completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the National Art School, Sydney in 2015. In the following years he produced two major bodies of work. The first was selected for exhibition at the Gosford Regional Gallery as part of Emerging 2017. The subsequent series formed his first solo exhibition in 2018.

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Moving forward he was shortlisted in a string of prizes and exhibited regularly in group exhibitions. Highlights include winning the Fisher’s Ghost Traditional Art Prize. A Mayoral commendation for his painting The Gates and critical acclaim for his portrait of Archibald Winner Guy Maestri. More recently, the solo exhibition A Lullaby For Suffering marked his first solo exhibition in Victoria. Most recently Massey has reengaged with dramatic narratives, using personal experiences and Baroque influences as ignition points for symbolically ambiguous scenes with surreal characters both animal and human.

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Between these highlights Massey has participated in several group exhibitions and had dozens of other pieces selected in prizes across the country. Whilst his work is most heavily collected in Sydney and Australia more broadly, he has recently entered international collections.  

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