Biography

Clare Scott is a multidisciplinary artist. Originally trained in Design Communications at Waterford Institute of Technology, she has worked in computer graphics, theatre and film design and was an exhibiting painter for some years, living and working in Ireland, Holland, Scotland and Africa. In 2002 she travelled to Namibia with the youth charity Raleigh International as expedition artist. Having returned to college to expand her practice she received a First Class Honours degree in Visual Arts from W.I.T. (2017) and an MA in Art & Process from C.I.T. Crawford in Cork (2019). In October 2019 she won the RC Lewis Crosby Award at the RDS Graduate Award Show.

Artist Statement

Though Scott's work is primarily sculptural it has its roots in painting. Recycled wood is a prime material. Other materials include cardboard, paint, plastic and paper. Works are often site specific and only loosely preplanned as the focus is on the artwork as a map of process. That is to say that the artwork is a manifestation of a particular collection of decisions in reaction to an environment rather than an object divorced from its origins and surroundings. This embodiment of path allows for the contemplation of concepts and relationships which are otherwise ambiguous or invisible. The work is a journey of discovery for both artist and viewer as, regardless of media, there is a way of working peculiar to the individual, which gives the work its quality. The predominate quality in this peculiar individual's case is humour, humour being the vehicle that can bring us closest to contemplating our mortality.

Selected Awards