Julian Scott
Julian Scott’s practice over the years has moved between sculpture, lens-based work and painting; often in pursuit of the same, or very closely related, sets of ideas. Julian’s influences are wide ranging and include modernist and contemporary experimental abstraction, cave art, petroglyphs, and the landscapes that he inhabits and through which he moves.
His paintings are abstract and made through a rigorously reflective process during which he responds to the materiality of the paint as well as things it suggests through analogy and metaphor. Whilst this occasionally resembles a kind of automatism, it is also the result of conscious decision making. It’s a methodology that is both cognitive and intuitive and, for Julian, the act of painting resembles a kind of bottomless archaeology of internal models of both lived and imagined experiences. He engages with painting as a research process through which he uncovers and explores conscious and subconscious knowledge in search of insight and data. This data is sometimes visible, sometimes hidden, and it tells of histories that are personal and general, real and fictitious.
See Julian’s work below!