Based in East Lothian, Scotland, Charlene Scott is a recent graduate from the Edinburgh College of Art where she received the James Cumming Award for Draughtsmanship for her final year work in Fine Art (Intermedia). Scott is also a recipient of the RSA John Kinross Travel Scholarship, a selected artist for the RSA New Contemporaries and winner of the 2023 Astaire Art Prize. Working primarily with the extraction, material and research of botanical pigments to create works on paper, Scott’s creative practice is concerned with the 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 and connection to place. “For the past several years I have been engaged with the transformation of plants into colour; the slow accumulation of which is a practice in peculiarity and persistence. The mundane processes of planting, gathering, tending, or simply watching and waiting become micro moments for immersion, reflection and ecological empowerment. These processes, over time, have shifted my practice beyond the curiosity of ancient technologies and nature itself to being more about a certain kind of quietude. Characterised by simplicity, repetition and abstraction, my practice has become a kind of homeopathic mechanism that resembles the process and gestures of its making. Through nuance and the exploration of mark making, my intention is to carry an essence of this process and relationship to environment that 'con-spires' with plants in celebration of the quiet and undramatic.
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Texture of PlaceInstallation View
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Texture of PlaceWillowherb Blind emboss on botanically dyed cotton rag paper
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Texture of PlaceWillowherb modified with iron water Blind emboss on botanically dyed cotton rag paper
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InflorescenceChar Ink derived from Whisky barrels and pencil on paper
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Botanicalpigment derived from apple bark broom, copper beech, elder rowan willow herb, ground peat char and copper acetate wax on paper
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