Samantha Thompson Studio

Im a professional artist that offers workshops from my country studio. I love to share my experiences in printmaking, including linocut and monoprinting, learn how to coptic stitch handmade books. I offer contemporary pastel workshops andI also teach textile classes. 

The studio has several rooms that includes a print and textile room. Class sizes are small and intimate, generally between 3 and 6 participants so everyone gets a maximum amount of time to discuss their ideas and learn. 

Samantha Thompson is a multidisciplinary artist and regional arts advocate based in Golden

Plains Shire, Victoria, Australia. Her practice operates at the intersection of contemporary art

and craft, with a sustained focus on printmaking. Through these mediums, she interrogates

the cultural conditions of play in adulthood. Characterised by a vibrant and deliberately

playful aesthetic, her work engages feminist discourse through the reactivation of “feminine-

coded” modes of making. Thompson’s materially diverse and often upcycled works extend

beyond object-based outcomes, translating into performance and public art contexts. Central

to her practice is an investment in intergenerational knowledge, particularly the transmission

of craft through familial and informal pedagogies. This mixture of conceptual inquiry and

academic research underpins her recent series, Relationship to Play, which examines the

social and psychological conditions that shape adult engagement with play, advocating for its

renewed integration into everyday life.