Cameron Scott
Cameron is a sculptor creating relief, wall mounted lime wood pieces about places and memories - places the artist has been, which have influenced and mean much to him, and these are overlaid with his memories all the way back to childhood.
Ideas for the carvings come from exploring a journey which moves through past and present, with recurring themes such as the window as a frame for memories (but also an escape/route to another life); objects from his life are often presented on the black and white checkerboard marble floor of Aberdeen Art Gallery.
His work owes a great debt to early Renaissance painters who often used different rooms / areas / views through windows in the same picture to tell different aspects of their story; but also to the Surrealist artists who have allowed his imagination to roam freely through his life, from his childhood in North East Scotland to now living in South West England. Thus a range of places can exist within the one picture – Kintore, Aberdeenshire, his home village, his time in Italy, his present home,. Buildings have a particular resonance with him, and litter his carvings.
His move to the South West has permeated into his carvings. The trees, the giant chalk figures, and particularly the standing stones. And the mystery of these stones has taken him back to Aberdeenshire and the decorated Pictish standing stones of the North East of Scotland - one of which stood 20 yards from the house in which he grew up.
He has exhibited widely from Saatchi Gallery, Centrespace Bristol, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, London Bridge Hotel, Portico Gallery Manchester, Weston Park Shropshire, Grain Gallery Sherbourne, Cartwright Gallery Bradford, Tricycle Theatre, London, Salford Art Gallery, Castle Cary Art Gallery, Ikon Gallery.
Contact details:
Telephone: 07976 757150
Email: cameron@cameronrscott.co.uk
Website: www.cameronscottart.co.uk
Instagram - crscarver
Ideas for the carvings come from exploring a journey which moves through past and present, with recurring themes such as the window as a frame for memories (but also an escape/route to another life); objects from his life are often presented on the black and white checkerboard marble floor of Aberdeen Art Gallery.
His work owes a great debt to early Renaissance painters who often used different rooms / areas / views through windows in the same picture to tell different aspects of their story; but also to the Surrealist artists who have allowed his imagination to roam freely through his life, from his childhood in North East Scotland to now living in South West England. Thus a range of places can exist within the one picture – Kintore, Aberdeenshire, his home village, his time in Italy, his present home,. Buildings have a particular resonance with him, and litter his carvings.
His move to the South West has permeated into his carvings. The trees, the giant chalk figures, and particularly the standing stones. And the mystery of these stones has taken him back to Aberdeenshire and the decorated Pictish standing stones of the North East of Scotland - one of which stood 20 yards from the house in which he grew up.
He has exhibited widely from Saatchi Gallery, Centrespace Bristol, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, London Bridge Hotel, Portico Gallery Manchester, Weston Park Shropshire, Grain Gallery Sherbourne, Cartwright Gallery Bradford, Tricycle Theatre, London, Salford Art Gallery, Castle Cary Art Gallery, Ikon Gallery.
Contact details:
Telephone: 07976 757150
Email: cameron@cameronrscott.co.uk
Website: www.cameronscottart.co.uk
Instagram - crscarver
