About

Sam Joseph Studio is a dynamic, socially conscious creative studio producing award-winning films and campaigns. Working across the intersections of film, art, and design, the studio collaborates with a diverse network of creatives to deliver public art projects, curated exhibitions, and bespoke art and design commissions.

Driven by authenticity and integrity, Sam Joseph Studio is committed to creating work that engages with some of today’s most pressing social and cultural issues.

Sam Joseph at Sam Joseph Studio is a visual artist, filmmaker, designer and lecturer, whose artistic practice explores the intersections of sustainability, societal norms, and systemic inequalities, 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 layered response to social injustice through her award-winning filmmaking, expanded print, art, design and multimedia practices, critically examining societal structures and value systems.

Engaging with the constructed nature of value, advocacy and space, Sam reveals a sensitivity to spatial dynamics and viewer interaction inspiring empathy. Sam’s ability to bridge personal narrative, collective voice, and political urgency defines a vital and courageous contemporary practice. Sam invites into her projects teams of inspiring artists, designers, film specialists and collaborators to create powerful and meaningful works of integrity, authenticity and advocating for change.

Sam brings extensive experience across filmmaking, education, interior design, campaigns, fashion, community art projects, curation, and exhibitions throughout the UK and Europe. Her films have been screened internationally, reaching audiences in over 118 countries. An alumna of the Royal College of Art (RCA) and Central Saint Martins (CSM), Sam has collaborated with local councils and the Arts Council on creative community commissions, and contributed to academic initiatives with institutions such as the University of Manchester. She has also worked alongside leading designers including Paul Smith and Artworks, and is a member of the collective 4 People.

Sam Joseph Studio, London.

Curriculum vitae

Education

2025, MA Print, Royal College of Art.

Scholarships: Vice-Chancellor Award, Disabled Students Award

2025, MA Interior Design, Royal College of Art

2024, Graduate Diploma in Art & Design (Distinction), Royal College of Art

2009, MARJON PGCE Education In Art & Design

1997, BA Hons, Fashion Communication and Promotion with Photography, Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design

1991-1993, Photography and Media Studies BTEC National Diploma, Kitson College, Leeds.

Courses

2024, Filmmakers Foundation Certificate, Raindance Film School

2024, Cinematography, Raindance Film School

2024, Screenwriters Foundation Certificate, Raindance Film School

2024, Film Producers Foundation Certificate, Raindance Film School

2024, Hands On Film Editing, Foundation Certificate, Raindance Film School

2021, 200hr Yoga Teacher Training (Yoga Alliance) Yorkshire Centre for Wellbeing

2020, Arts Mark, Arts Council, Leeds

Professional

2025, Guest Lecturer, Across RCA, Royal College of Art 2025

2025, Contributor, Materiality of the Book symposium broadsheet, RCA

2025, Panel Discussion, Visible Voices, New York

2025, Panel Discussion, I Will Tell International Film Festival, London

2025, TINFF Interview, Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival, Toronto

2024-2025 RCA ReFrame Residency, super SATELLITE Studio, NEX Community Space, New Acres, Wandsworth

2025, Guest Lecturer, Hereford College of Arts

2025, Panel Discussion, Co-Creating Wandsworth, Wandsworth Council X reframe

2025, Visible Voices Workshop, Wandsworth Council

2025, Professional Talk and Film event, (IN)VISIBLE, The Nex 2025

2025, Expert/practitioner research, Visions of, and Steps Towards, an Environmentally Sustainable Space Future, Manchester University, Manchester

2024-2025, Founder & President, Against Gender Based Violence Society, RCA SU

2024-2025, Outreach RCA Tutor, Architecture, Royal College of Art & Poor Collective

2023-2025, Royal College of Art Ambassador, Open Days, Online Events

2023, Part of the Graduate Diploma digital team, King Charles lll Coronation Project, Projection Mapping, Royal Collaboration, RCA

2023, Webinar speaker, RCA Creating a Distinctive Art & Design Portfolio: For artists and non-artists

2010-2022, Specialist Art and Design, Exhibitions, Arts Council contributor, Workshops, Community Engagement Red Kite Alliance, Yorkshire

2020, Diversity and Inclusion Labs, Educational, Arts Council, IVE, Leeds

2019-2022 Governor, Art, Design and Culture, Red Kite Alliance

2018, Arts Award Adviser, Arts Council

2016, Conserving Our Biodiversity, project with 300 school children, exhibited Saatchi Gallery

2008-2010, BTEC, A Level, Art and Design, Photography Lead, Heathfield Community College

2001-2008, Floral Designer & Editorial Condé Nast, London and Devon

1998-2001, Claire Sawford PR, V&A, Running Press, Exhibition, London

1996-1998, Freelance Fashion Photographer, Elite, Models 1, Profile, London

1995-1996, Internship, Paul Smith PR, London & New York

Awards

2025, Longlisted ARTEVOL & SAATCHI

2025, Winner, (IN)VISIBLE Best Experimental Short Film, Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival, Toronto

2025, Winner, FALLEN, Best Dance Film, Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival, Toronto

2025, Winner, (IN)VISIBLE, Best Artist Film, Berlin Indie Film Festival, Berlin

2025, Winner, (IN)VISIBLE, Best Actress, Montreal Women Film Festival,

2025, Winner, (IN)VISIBLE, Best Director (female), Berlin Indie Awards

2025, Winner, (IN)VISIBLE,2025 WSXA Paris International Film Festival

2025, Honourable Mention Inspirational, (IN)VISIBLE, London Global Film Festival

2025, Honourable Mention Inspirational, (IN)VISIBLE, Rob Knox London Film Festival

2025, Finalist, (IN)VISIBLE, Detroit Independent Film Festival

2025, Finalist, (IN)VISIBLE, International Indie Film and Screenplay

2025, Nominee (IN)VISIBLE, Rome Independent Film Festival

2025, Nominee, (IN)VISIBLE, LA Independent Women Film Festival

2024, Finalist, Graduate Art Show, Vanner Gallery, Salisbury

2024, School of Architecture Climate/ Spatial Justice Prize

2024, Shortlisted Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize

2023, Shortlisted Hyundai Awards for Excellence in Sustainability and Creative Practice Inspiration