ART EXHIBITION opening Friday 10th October

See my new series of paintings at Harlow Gallery

from 8th - 18th October 2025

Opening Friday 10th October 6-8pm

355 Sydney rd Brunswick

A Little More Than Nothing spans a new chapter of practice development incorporating painting, photography and video. In the summer of 2025, I developed a new approach to painting using only two pigments and water. This method relies on minimal materials applied in the moment - granulating, controlled, and then released. The process demands an embodied presence. Like meditation, once the materials are laid down, my ability to intervene is limited. This discomfort - letting go of control and moving away from figurative image-making - means losing familiar parameters. What follows is invention.

painting by Samantha Sederof

The stories we tell - our relativism - shape the realities we construct. These works are not random; each watercolour on paper reveals unconscious memories of childhood and place.

The method itself emerged from a childhood experience, inspired by Mahgo, an artist I met who lived by and depicted Swan Bay on Wadawurrung land. The bay appears like an infinite mirror; between sky and water, distinctions blur, and light shifts enigmatically. Mahgo used similar materials to explore this watery alchemy. In this body of work, water is central - present in the bay, the body, and the artwork.

This series uses painting, photography, and video to explore a multidimensional experience of landscape - both physical and psychological. Each painting, made with just two granulating pigments, becomes a record of presence: the trace of a brush, a drip of water, the momentum as it flows across paper. The paintings have been printed onto fabric and animated by the human body on location, the work is site specific, echoing the embodied relationship between memory and place. Captured photographically then on video, I seek to animate the experience for the audience to then step inside a synchronous moment between the human body, landscape and painting. The audience witnesses a moment of convergence between memory and place, a moment we can replay but cannot take hold of. 

painting by Samantha Sederof

The fragility of this protected marine landscape is echoed throughout the work, asking the audience to reflect on their physical connection to land and our collective vulnerability to ecological collapse. Echoing Indigenous ontologies of interconnectedness between land and people, the artwork aims to include audiences, to reflect the sensitive nature of our place within this system, the way we live between sky and earth. 

I hope to see you there!