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
2019 RDS Visual Arts Award Winner - RC Lewis-Crosby Award 2019
2019 Road Books,The Cabin Residency, Cork
2017 CURATORS AWARD, Peripheries Open, Gorey
RDS VISUAL ART AWARDS Long List
NATIONAL SCULPTURE FACTORY Residency Award
2010 WATERFORD CITY COUNCIL Exhibition Grant
2008 BAUSCH & LOMB ARTS AWARD Nominee
WATERFORD MUNICIPAL COLLECTION
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 (until March 28th) Folie á Deux:Polyphonic Claverings on the Tragedy
of Every day Love, Luan Gallery, Athlone
2019 FANTASTIC VOYAGE,The Rogue Gallery, Waterford
2018 STILL TRIPPIN'Garter Lane Arts centre,Waterford
2008 ROAD TRIP Mary Street Gallery, Waterford
2006 NEW PAINTINGS, Greyfriars Municipal Art Gallery, Waterford
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 GRADUATE SHOWCASE : GOMA, Lombard Street, Waterford
2017 PERIPHERIES OPEN, Peripheries Space, Gorey
2017 GRADUATE SHOWCASE : IMAGINE ARTS FESTIVAL, Waterford
2016 THE END (selected) GOMA, Waterford
2008 DRAWN TO GARRARUS Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford
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