Samantha has been working as a designer and teacher since completing her degree at Adelaide University in 1995. She has worked on exhibition design, commercial fit-outs, residential developments, film sets and environmentally sustainable projects both as a sole practitioner and a contractor to small practices. Samantha has a keen interest in painting and drawing, completing a two-year study of Venetian Oil painting technique under Charlie Sheard. Currently she is investigating both the visual and physical cross-over between painting and architecture, including the importance of making a space readable to those involved in the design process and all those who will ultimately use that space. She also currently teaches design and communications to university students.

Samantha Donnelly
BArch