Samuel Beilby is an artist and researcher based in Boorloo (Perth) on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja. He is interested in processes of extraction, labour, noise, and paranoia, and often uses diagrammatics and amplification to plot entropic exchanges and reproductive relations between these things. As of 2026, he has participated in exhibitions, residencies, artist talks, academic conferences and performances in Taiwan, Japan, France, Singapore, Greece and Australia. His writing has appeared in Dispatch Review, Un Magazine, Leonardo and various conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues.
Samuel is the co-founder/co-director of _____g.s (aka Underscore Gallery & Studios, est. 2025), an independent artist-run project in Boorloo that hosts exhibitions, performances, screenings and experimental music shows, a sessional teacher at the University of Western Australia’s School of Design’ Fine Art Department, and is a PhD candidate at the same university with a research focus on developing a theoretical account for contemporary noise art practices. He is also an irritant member of the Boorloo-based art collective mg (aka mgmgmgmg)
Previously he worked as the Gallery Associate at AVA Gallery (2024-2026), and was a board member at Cool Change Contemporary from (2021-2026).
Education:
2024 – ongoing: PhD, University of Western Australia.
2020 – 2023: Master of Fine Arts (by Research), University of Western Australia.
2016 – 2020: Bachelor of Arts: History of Art and Fine Art (with First Class Honours in Fine Art), University of Western Australia.
Awards, Grants & Residencies:
2025: Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport’ Arts Short Notice Activity Program (SNAP), grant (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2025: PICA Quick Response Residency – 12-week Residency at PICA Studio Zero (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2023: Tropical Lab #17 – 2-week residency at Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore).
2023: PICA Asia Pacific Residency Program – 7-week residency at Taipei Artist Village (Taipei, Taiwan).
2023:Workwelt Logistics selected as laureate for ISEA2023, award (Paris, France).
2019: Artsource Industry Award for user-friendly at UWA Fine Arts Major FAM19 Graduate Exhibition, award (Boorloo/Perth WA).
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2025: Pomace – solo exhibition at Light Works (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2023: Machinic Paragenesis – solo exhibition at Current Gallery (Walyalup/Fremantle WA).
2022: Workwelt Logistics – solo exhibition at UWA Cullity Gallery (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2018: Untitled (Surveyors) – solo exhibition at Artlaab (Boorloo/Perth WA).
Selected Group Exhibition:
2026: The Botanical World of Mary Delany – group exhibition at Wanneroo Regional Gallery (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2025: Restless Currents – group exhibition at UWA Cullity Gallery (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2025: Disambiguation (Sealant XIV) – group performance with mg at _____g.s (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2025: FORCE – performance by Brian Fuata, live sound by Lucreccia Quintanilla and Samuel Beilby) at AVA Gallery (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2025: Put Em in a Box #4 – group exhibition at gift_lab (Tokyo, Japan).
2024: Put Em in a Box #3 – group exhibition at Waley Art (Taipei, Taiwan).
2024: Athens Digital Art Festival 2024: Techno(s)cene – festival across various locations (Athens, Greece).
2024: Put Em in a Box #2 – group exhibition at Cool Change Contemporary (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2023: Put Em in a Box #1 – group exhibition at Sonic Sensory Lab (Taipei, Taiwan).
2023: Tropical Lab #17 – group exhibition at Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore).
2023: diminution – group performance with mg at Treasure Hill Artist Village (Taipei, Taiwan).
2023: Tickle, Sense – group exhibition at Treasure Hill Artist Village (Taipei, Taiwan).
2023: Workwelt Logistics – exhibited and presented (artist talk) at International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA2023) digital art exhibition (Paris, France).
2022: distension – group performance with mg at Light Works (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2022: distension – group performance with mg at UWA Cullity Gallery (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2021: inwardly – group performance with mg at UWA Cullity Gallery (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2020: outsides – group performance with mg at UWA Cullity Gallery (Boorloo, WA).
2020: Familiar Objects & Feral Arrangements – group exhibition at The Lobby (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2020: Goolugatup Heathcote Select 2020 – group exhibition at Goolugatup Heathcote (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2019: UWA Fine Arts Major ‘FAM19’ Graduate Exhibition – group exhibition at UWA Cullity Gallery(Boorloo/Perth WA).
2019: (cross)hatched – group exhibition at YMCA HQ Gallery (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2018: Don’t Let Me Sell Out – group exhibition at Stable Hands (Walyalup/Fremantle WA).
2018: UWA Fine Arts Major ‘FAM18’ Graduate Exhibition – group exhibition at UWA Cullity Gallery (Boorloo/Perth WA).
Paper Presentations and Artist Talks (International):
2023: "Turbulent Partnerships: Insects, Corporations and Art”, academic presentation at Tropical Lab #17, Lasalle College of the Arts (Singapore).
2023: "Turbulent Partnerships: Insects, Corporations and Art", artist talk at BioClub (Tokyo, Japan).
2023: “Machinic Paragenesis”, artist talk at 2023 Season 2 artist-in-residency talks, Treasure Hill Artist Village (Taipei, Taiwan).
2023: "Workwelt Logistics", academic presentation/artist talk at The International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2023) (Paris, France).
2021: “Swarm Labour: The Aesthetics of Sentient Machine Collectives at Work”, academic presentation at xCoAx 2021 ‘9th Conference on Computation, Aesthetics and X (online).
Paper Presentations and Artist Talks (Australia):
2025: “Demystifying the COVID-19 Hyperobject in Marco Fusinato’s Desastres”, academic presentation at the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand ‘Unruly Objects’ Conference (AAANZ2025) (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2025: Un Magazine 19.1: “Resonant imaginaries and sound clashes: contemporary – political – disruptive – polyrhythmic” WA book launch and panel talk event at _____g.s (Boorloo/Perth, WA).
2025: “Amplification and Compression, Signal and Noise in Marco Fusinato’s Desastres”, academic presentation at Australasian Science & Technology Studies Network ‘Signals & Noises’ Conference (AusSTS2025) (Naarm/Melbourne VIC).
2025: “Open Studios: Djeran-Makuru”, open studio and panel talk with fellow artists in residence at PICA (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2025: “Towards a Promethean Noise”, academic presentation at Design Research Symposium 2025, UWA School of Design (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2024: “Machinic Paragenesis: Experiments in Handling Noise as an Artistic Material”, academic presentation/artist talk at International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2024) (Meanjin/Brisbane QLD).
2023: “Noise within Social Ecosystems of the Automated Artwork,” academic presentation at Automation Culture: Intersections between Art, Automation, and Living Systems 2024 Conference, UWA School of Design (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2023: “Swarmic Trajectories: Mapping the Symbiosis of Social Insects and Biomimetic Automation at Fulfilment Centre Worksites”, academic presentation at Fine Art and History of Art 2023 Postgraduate Symposium, UWA School of Design (Boorloo/Perth WA).
2022: “Swarmic Trajectories: Mapping the Symbiosis of Social Insects and Biomimetic Automation at Fulfilment Centre Worksites”, academic presentation at Fine Art and History of Art 2022 Postgraduate Symposium, UWA School of Design (Boorloo/Perth WA).
Writing:
2026: “Lawful Good”, Exhibition catalogue essay w/ Chandler Abrahams for Lulu Oehlers, Lauren Jane Salt, and Ash Tower’s group exhibition, Lawful Good, at _____g.s (arts writing).
2026: “Entropic Disclosure: An Essay on Iain Dean’s Tongue against teeth”, Exhibition catalogue essay for Iain Dean’s Tongue against teeth exhibition at AVA Gallery (arts writing)
2026: “The Mechanics of Wiggle Room”, Essay in a book, Made From Stone by Tim Meakins, ISBN: 978-1-7647278-0-8. (arts writing)
2026: “Form in light of Control (x) and Contingency (y)”, Exhibition catalogue essay for David Brazier’s Control Room exhibition at _____g.s (arts writing).
2026: “Open Studio - Tim Meakins”, Exhibition catalogue essay for Tim Meakins’ Laying Down and Looking Up exhibition at Cheap Tongue gallery (arts writing).
2025: “The Coalfields, Contraction and Recursivity: A Conversation between Chandler Abrahams and Samuel Beilby on Pomace”, transcribed interview with Chandler Abrahams in Exhibition catalogue for Samuel Beilby’s Pomace exhibition at Light Works (arts writing).
2025: “Abandoning the Self with Jared Xu”, Un Magazine 19.1: Resonant imaginaries and sound clashes: contemporary – political – disruptive – polyrhythmic, essay published online and in print (arts writing).
2025: “Disambiguation / Sealant XIV”, Un Magazine 19.1: Resonant imaginaries and sound clashes: contemporary – political – disruptive – polyrhythmic, written by mgmgmgmg (Chandler Abrahams, Levi McLean and Paul Boye, and Samuel Beilby), essay published online and in print (arts writing).
2025: “Farce”, Exhibition catalogue essay w/ Chandler Abrahams for Bruno Booth, Darcy Cronin, Germaine Chan, and Pascale Giorgi’s group exhibition, Farce, at _____g.s (arts writing).
2025: “Interstitions”, Exhibition catalogue essay w/ Chandler Abrahams for Lucinda Tassone, Aaron Claringbold, Guy Louden, and Ella Valentine & Tom Rog’s group exhibition, Interstitions, at _____g.s (arts writing).
2024: “Swarmic Trajectories: Mapping the Symbiosis of Social Insects and Biomimetic at Fulfilment Centre Worksites,”Leonardo, Graduate Abstract Database (MFA thesis abstract).
2024: “A stroll through the sacred, profane, and bizarre”, essay in a book, Dispatch Review Anthology 2023, Dispatch Review Press, ISBN: 978-1-7635333-0-1. (arts writing).
2024: “Machinic Paragenesis: Experiments in Handling Noise as an Artistic Material”, International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2024) (conference proceedings).
2024: “Unearthing new epistemologies of extraction”, Dispatch Review (arts writing).
2023: “A stroll through the sacred, profane, and bizarre”, Dispatch Review (arts writing).
2022: “Machinic Umwelt” (chapter) in A guidebook of notes and ideas to accompany the mg project, edited by Paul Boye (various contributors) (anthology zine).
2021: “Swarm Labour: The Aesthetics of Sentient Machine Collectives at Work”, xCoAx 2021 ‘9th Conference on Computation, Aesthetics and X (conference proceedings).
2021: “Project Space: Beyond Agog”, Exhibition catalogue essay for Linda Loh’s Beyond Agog at Cool Change Contemporary (arts writing).
Press/media:
2025: Scenes in a Box, exhibition book edited by Ya Tien Shih, published by Notation Room.
2024: “Strange Sounds in Wanhua: A collaborative art exhibition unites an international band of sonic artists in Taipei”, Thomas Bird, newspaper article in the Tapei Times (Taiwan).
2023: "Echoes of Fusinato – Noise/Signal Disruption in the work of Samuel Beilby and Curtis Taylor", Paul Boyé, conference paper presented at the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) 2023 Conference (Yugambeh Country/Gold Coast QLD).
