Sam Howie is an Adelaide-based visual artist who works primarily with paint and holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from the University of South Australia. Howie has exhibited widely including shows with the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, the Australian Experimental Art Foundation and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.

The recent works have been exploring ideas of assimilation and questioning directions of assimilation. While assimilation in Australia is, politically speaking, such a negatively loaded word, speaking of assimilation through the history of painting, which can be viewed through a cultural lens, offers a way of engaging and reshaping the ideas of assimilation in positive and multidirectional ways.