Samantha LESTER

Samantha is a Launceston based independent artist and creative practitioner working across mediums of live performance, freelance graphic design, food design, sculptural design and spatial response. Having recently completed her Bachelor of Design at the University of Tasmania, she will graduate with a specialisation in spatial design.

Professionally, she has been involved in the Tasmanian performing arts industry since 2012, she has worked on a variety of productions with organisations such as Dark Mofo, Mona Foma, Junction Arts Festival, Tasdance, DRILL Performance Tasmania, Stompin Dance, Ten Days on the Island Festival and Festival of Voices. Samantha was elected as a member for the board of DRILL in 2019 – 2020 as a Dancers Representative.

In 2021 she was selected as an artist for Multitrack, facilitated by Theatre North in partnership with Mudlark, Junction Arts Festival and Tasdance. Samantha’s current work The Space Between explores how the voids and distances between people, places, objects, and time are perceived. What lies in these spaces; Silences, non-verbal ques, memories, past experiences and all the nuance of our varied interpretations. How does the absence of information inform the overall understanding, what can be understood by listening to the silence and space between what is said and what is thought?

**Samantha is joining Situate 22 23 as our Artist Producer intern