Sam Eyles is a Meanjin/Magandjin (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.

EXHIBITIONS

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 the space between, Vacant Assembly, West End, Brisbane

2022 singularity, Vacant Assembly, West End, Brisbane

2021 hold your breath and count to ten, Vacant Assembly, West End, Brisbane

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

2025 Drawn from Life, Drawspace, Newtown, Gadigal / Sydney

2024 Block Show, Vacant Assembly, West End, Brisbane

2024 Applied Colour Conference, KEPK, Yeerongpilly, Brisbane

2023 Block Show, Vacant Assembly, West End, Brisbane

2023 Suburban Abstract KEPK, Yeerongpilly, Brisbane

2022 Block Show, Vacant Assembly, West End, Brisbane

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

2016 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

2012 50/50, Fundraiser Exhibition, Jugglers Art Space, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane

2012 USQ Alumni Show, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba 

2012 Open Fields, 100 Greenfield Gallery, Whitechapel, London 

2011 LOVE LOVE Christmas Show, Love Love Studios, Teneriffe, Brisbane

2010 X Show Jugglers Art Space

2010 Jugglers Showcase for the 2010 Brisbane Artist Run Initiatives (BARI) Festival, Jugglers Art Space

2010 Desperate Spaces P.S Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane

2010 Downlands 24th Annual Art Exhibition Downlands College, Toowoomba

2010 Sacs Appeal. Jugglers Art Space

2010 Artist in Residence Showcase Jugglers Art Space

2009 X Show Jugglers Art Space

2009 Jugglers Showcase for the 2009 Brisbane Artist Run Initiatives (BARI) Festival, Jugglers Art Space

2009 Project 48 Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Art, Brisbane

2008 X Show Jugglers Art Space

2008 Jugglers Showcase for the 2008 Brisbane Artist Run Initiatives (BARI) Festival, Jugglers Art Space

2008 Artists in Residence Showcase Jugglers Art Space

2007 X Show Jugglers Art Space

2007 12” x 12” The Art of Being Jugglers Art Space

2006 X Show Jugglers Art Space

2006 Works in Progress. E’merj Contemporary, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane

2005 Uncommon Ground Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane

2005 A Piece of the Action Soapbox Gallery

2004 Genesis V Bond University, Gold Coast

2003 Play on Play Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba

2003 Recent Works Soapbox Gallery

2002 Genesis III Bond University

2002 Art vs. Life Soapbox Gallery

2002 Elements Metro Arts, Brisbane

2002 Downlands 16th Annual Art Exhibition Downlands College, Toowoomba

2002 Muse Soapbox Gallery

2001 3 – Eyles Byrne & Plowman Empire Theatre, Toowoomba

2001 Continuum University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba

2000 East Coast Sugar Soapbox Gallery