Samara Scott

26 Jun-10 Aug 2014

Overview

Samara Scott lifts textures and sensations directly from the daily flow of images that surround us, addressing head-on our complex and conflicted contemporary experience of the body. For this exhibition Scott is producing a major new installation, utilising large sheets of glass to make ‘tapestries’ that form semi-transparent horizontal surfaces throughout the space, and a large wall mural of toothpaste and magazine images. She describes her process of making as ‘a sort of sentimental material investigation; a slow digestion of cosmetic, edible and chemical cultural debris’. Interested in the lure of superficiality Scott fuses together make-up, painted silicone, tin-foil and felt, in delicate and highly suggestive ways. Allusions to personal and collective memories are suggested in layered, theatrical environments. Flowing through her aesthetic are references to numerous decorative styles from art and design history, such as Post-Impressionism, Colour Field painting, postmodern décor and present-day pop iconography.