Hugo Michell Gallery
Sam Gold
Australia
Sam Gold is a South Australian artist living and working on Kaurna Yerta (the Adelaide Plains).
Sam Gold turned their hand to ceramics in earnest in 2018, bringing over a decade of training in Transpersonal Art Therapy (Ikon Institute), Furniture Design (TafeSA) and studies in Contemporary Art (UniSA, ACSA) to the medium. The pinch-style coiled sculptures and vessels, for which Gold has since become known, push the structural and conceptual capacity of clay. As objects, they materialise a kinship between Gold’s physical body, their psychological and emotional self, and the clay body, allowing Gold to explore states of futility, failure, resilience and grit, porousness yet inscrutability. Subtle shifts in form, shape and texture – from the pressure of a thumb to the angle of the wrist – produce a somatic archive; “…your body is the only boundary for clay. You are the profile.”
Artworks By Sam Gold
Hugo Michell Gallery
Trying to match the internal and external, 2025
Sam Gold
porcelain and enamel
129cm
x 129cm
x 11cm
$AUD 6,200
Hugo Michell Gallery
To render the contact between self and the world (a-b), 2025
Sam Gold
porcelain and enamel
200cm
x 171cm
x 13cm
$AUD 11,000
Hugo Michell Gallery
Sweeping outwards, swallowing anything within reach, 2025
Sam Gold
porcelain and enamel
28cm
x 28cm
x 28cm
$AUD 3,200
Hugo Michell Gallery
Mmm I like your flow, humble little flow, 2025
Sam Gold
stoneware, porcelain, and enamel
36cm
x 102cm
x 11cm
$AUD 5,200
Hugo Michell Gallery
It forces me to feel my body differently, 2025
Sam Gold
porcelain
43cm
x 24cm
x 24cm
$AUD 3,800
Hugo Michell Gallery
I like the slipperyness of that, 2025
Sam Gold
stoneware and enamel
38cm
x 30cm
x 30cm
$AUD 3,800
Hugo Michell Gallery
Feeling the shifting texture as one occupies space, 2025
Sam Gold
stoneware, enamel, megapoxy, and polymer compound
71cm
x 37cm
x 37cm
$AUD 6,500
Hugo Michell Gallery
Collisions of bodies, 2025
Sam Gold
porcelain and bright blue engobe
26cm
x 26cm
x 26cm
$AUD 2,800