Samara Scott's 'Harvest' exhibition at The Sunday Painter explores consumer culture through sensory landscapes

Samara Scott's first solo exhibition at The Sunday Painter in Peckham opened in March 2015, titled 'Harvest'. The show features unconventional landscapes made from everyday consumer materials, including a mural called 'Landscape' (2014) created with toothpaste applied directly to a wall, emitting a minty smell. In the main gallery, dim spotlights cast peach and fuchsia hues, highlighting sculptural compositions on trays that incorporate food, makeup, and chemical substances like hair gel and fabric softener. These works use materials such as dyed toilet paper, raw spaghetti, incense sticks, insulation foam, water, food coloring, and nail polish to form pastel-hued topographies. Scott's approach emphasizes sensory experience, drawing on Pop art fascination with consumer culture's superficiality and excess. The exhibition title metaphorically references cycles of consumption and waste, though Scott avoids direct social or environmental commentary. Instead, she recycles objects into sentimental landscapes, appealing to senses in a digitally saturated era. The show was reviewed in ArtReview's March 2015 issue.