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Screen Queen by Leah Twomey
Published in Vogue Living, 2009-11-01
SAMANTHA EVERTON ONCE guilelessly thought of photography as a form of documentation, a way to detail something that already exists, and not about creativity. So how was she to apply her natural talent and affinity for creation - costumes, hair, make-up? While working as a hairdresser in her twenties, Everton was called on to design, more...
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Utopia by Nichola Garvey
Published in BIFB Core Program catalogue, 2009-09-04
Submerged in chilly waters off the coast of Victoria’s southern tip, in the Southern Ocean, a young woman gasps for breath. Goose pimples crowd her arms and legs as she struggles against the lapping waves, struggles against the cold, her lips as blue as the dress she wears, which sways with the rhythm of the ocean, gently slapping her more...
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Sea the depths an artist goes to by Gabriella Coslovich
Published in The Age, 2009-09-02
THE underwater shot, featuring the requisite good-looking woman, hair fanning like a mermaid's, bubbles shimmering about her submerged body, is a staple of dream-like sequences in film, often used as a device to illustrate psychological states. So it is a brave photographer who delves into the subaquatic realm in the hope of more...
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Curious frame of mind by Katrina Lobley
Published in Sydney Morning Herald, 2009-03-21
SOMEWHERE between the ages of eight and 10, Samantha Everton stumbled upon the work of Salvador Dali. Her mind was never the same again. "I started thinking in a surreal way when I was very young," says the 37-year-old photo-artist. On the phone from her Melbourne home, she's giggly and bright as a button even though it's early on more...
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Vintage Dolls by Emma Kirsopp
Published in Australian Art Review, 2009-03-17
Vintage Dolls is a show of thirteen carefully staged and immaculately produced photographs that explore themes of childhood, the uncanny and enchantment. Set in a world somewhere between dreams and waking, haunted girls inhabit strange rooms alongside shadows, wolves, dolls, and forests, where they morph into princesses, witches and more...
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Review of Vintage Dolls by Julianne Gill
Published in , 2009-03-04
A golden-haired child lies resplendent on a turquoise bed - eyes closed, hair splayed - in a pose reminiscent of Ophelia slipping into the murky depths. However, standing over her with a porcelain doll in hand is another girl, this one wearing a ravagingly sinister wolf mask. Is this a childhood game? A re-enactment of Little Red more...
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The Making of Vintage Dolls by Jean-Luc Syndikas
Published in , 2009-03-04
During the shooting of Vintage Dolls, film-maker Jean-Luc Syndikas was on the set to record the event. This is a short preview of his documentary:
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All Dolled Up by Harbant Gill
Published in Herald Sun, 2009-03-02
A derelict house is the setting for some stunning camera work, writes Harbant Gill SMASHING holes in the wall of a house, ripping off the wallpaper and planting a tree in the living room were but small steps in Samantha Everton's artful plan. The photographic artist spent eight months sketching her storyboard, scouring through more...
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Blanket Magazine interview
Published in Blanket Magazine, 2007-12-22
Could you tell us a little about yourself and your background? I am a photo artist working from Melbourne. I grew up in remote mining towns in central Queensland (Emerald and Capella mainly), I travelled a lot as a child, even having 4 months off school at one stage so we could travel right around Australia. My homework for more...
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Childhood fears by Maggie Finch
Published in Photofile, 2007-10-22
The strange thing about childhood fears is that no matter how fantastical or improbably the threat, to a child that fear is real. The fear is a happening, tangible emotion even if the frightening cause does not actually exist. The propspect of imminent danger, real or imagined, has the potential to overwhelm a child and cause them more...
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Bazaar Insider by Margaret Merten
Published in Harper's Bazaar, 2007-07-22
Meet Samantha Everton and there's not a hint of her challenging, Gothic work about her. She's a sunny, bright redhead and yet her latest exhibition is nothing if not dark, with a sort of tainted whimsy. Everton began her career as a hairdresser, but a creative life always held allure. After applying unsuccessfully to TAFE, more...
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Like Frights by Jennie Jones
Published in Daily Telegraph, 2007-06-18
Nearly every child worries about not being liked, being different, or being alone. In Melbourne photographer Samantha Everton's work, these fears blur with reality. These photos will be among those shown in her new exhibition Childhood Fears, which opens at the Byron McMahon Gallery on July 17. Taken on a more...
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Spying on dark dreams by Alison Barclay
Published in Herald Sun, 2007-06-06
The next time Samantha Everton gets busted for espionage, she intends to get the goods first. And that depends on timing. Breaking into an abandoned mental asylum in Sydney, Everton noted the security guard's patrols — once every 20 minutes — and, camera poised, prowled around under cover of night. And got more...
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Through a looking glass, darkly by Keith Shipton
Published in Art Review, 2005-10-01
Artist Samantha Everton, a 2003 graduate of the rigorous RMIT Bachelor of Photography course, demonstrated a daring lack of humility in her third solo exhibition, hung late last year at Melbourne's Gasworks Art Park. Most “emerging talents” would be happy to simply have an audience show up. Everton inveigled them more...
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Seeing it Through by Keith Shipton
Published in Photo Review, 2004-05-01
Creativity, dedication, and orthodontics are all elements in the mix that makes Samantha Everton's work some of the most exciting Photo Review has presented by an emerging photographic talent over the past two years. 'I've lost count of the number of orthodontic braces I've removed,' she says, explaining how she became so adept at more...