Sam Joseph is a London based visual artist, filmmaker and designer whose artistic practice explores the intersections of systemic inequalities, socio-spatial narratives,
sustainability, and societal structures, with a focus on gender-based violence within lived and public spaces. Sam highlights the resilience and strength of women and the need to challenge societal norms and gender stereotyping that perpetuates inequality. Creative development explores a sustainable layered response to social injustice through filmmaking, visual art, spatial design and curation, critically examining societal structures and value systems. Engaging with the constructed nature of value, advocacy and space, Joseph reveals a sensitivity to spatial dynamics and viewer interaction. Joseph’s ability to bridge personal narrative, collective voice, and political urgency defines a vital and courageous contemporary creative practice.
Joseph a graduate from the RCA with an MA in Print, 2025, MA Interior Design, 2024, Graduate Diploma in Art & Design, 2023 and an alumni of CSM, 1997, BA hons Fashion: Communication. In 2024–25, Joseph completed this year a residency at RCA Reframe superSATELLITE, producing an award winning film, initiating collaborations, taking part in exhibitions and panel discussions, community events and collaborating with Wandsworth Council for her Visible Voices community project, Exploring Safety for Women and Girls in Wandsworth Town Centre, commissioned as part of Co-Creating Wandsworth.
Joseph’s acclaimed debut short film, (IN)VISIBLE, is a psychological short that exposes the insidious nature of domestic abuse and societal complicity. (IN)VISIBLE is being recognised globally as part of a ‘new wave of female filmmakers’ on the festival circuit challenging cinematic norms, including gratuitous violence and the stereotyping of victims, particularly in stories of domestic violence and violence against women. FALLEN, Joseph’s second award winning film expands into a multi-projected installation, VR experience, and screenprint series titled The Invisibility of the Erasure of Women.
Inspired by the Killed Women’s Fallen Women campaign advocating for policy change, FALLEN will be featured as part of this campaign later this year.