Despacito Art School with Samara Scott + OSE Associates 2026
18 – 21 June 2026

As part of OSE Summer Exhibition 2026

A collaborative stop-frame animation and lightboxes made by guest artist Samara Scott with OSE Associates and Despacito Art School (ages 5-12+) for OSE’s 2026 Summer Exhibition. 

Visages and Ghosts (documentation) were developed over a series of experimental workshops exploring liquidity, spillages and borders. During the workshops, the group used repurposed waste plastic bags and gloopy everyday household products such as hair gel and food dye to create large-scale translucent film frames. DIY and direct to surface, the works were made using alternative negative etching, pencil cel animation and long “exposures” of materials on surface. The resultant artworks Visages and Ghosts, which are made from photographs and scanner shots taken during the workshops, relate to a wider body of work that Scott terms ‘viscous compositions’.

This peer-to-peer project is part of our Associates Programme Social Practice Module, which sees OSE’s Despacito Art School (ages 5-12+) work with Associates on ambitious intergenerational projects led by guest artists.

Samara Scott (b. 1986, London) lives and works in Dover. Liquidity defines her work as objects and substances pop, collide, bubble, and leak, producing seductive and grotesque vistas. Her works are sometimes shown pooled in iridescent outdoor fountains, cut into the floors of galleries, swimming on gleaming glass windows, or stretched into vast suspended ceilings. Foraged trash and supermarket-shelf miscellany come together in spontaneous petri dish–like tableaux. Surroundings curdle and a primal-plastic alchemy oozes onto and pollutes surface.

She has exhibited work at The Hayward Gallery, London; The New Museum, New York; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris, among others. She has had solo exhibitions at KM21, The Hague; Tramway, Glasgow; and CAPC Museum, Bordeaux.

Scott launched clothing label sos.skyn ”Custom Liquidity, Latex atelier” in 2018.

This artwork is a collaboration between Open School East’s Associates and Despacito Art School.