Charlene Scott is a recent graduate from Edinburgh College of Art where she received the James Cumming Award for Draughtsmanship for her final year work. Scott is also a recipient of the RSA John Kinross Scholarship, a selected finalist for the VAS Graduate Award and winner of the 2023 Astaire Art Prize.
Working primarily with the material, research and extraction of botanical pigments to create works on paper, Scott’s creative practice is concerned with parallels she finds between minimalism and the principals of ecology; intimate observation, distillation and attention to nuance. These qualities are essential in her practice where she works with botanical colour and repetition through line, folds and pattern in order to explore quietude. Her works serve as a trace of her creative process which at times may evolve quietly through experimentation or otherwise distilled from a particular experience or sense of place.
Looking for Piero is a series of work influenced by Scott’s time spent in Italy on scholarship. The work is a response to the stillness and harmony she felt upon coming face to face with the many frescoes she experienced there; distilled colour and structure being Scott’s contemporary exploration of this experience of looking.
