Statement
In recent work I am attempting to express other kinds of knowing the body outside influential cultural and ideological frameworks. I have sought to create spaces in which sensations assert their force to reveal the body as a desiring subject determinate of its own meaning.
Research Statement
I am a Hobart based Artist who teaches painting and digital media at the Tasmanian School of Art, and am currently enrolled in a PhD programme. I am also an active researcher with the Digital Art Research Facility (DARF) a research unit at the Tasmanian School of Art exploring the expressive potentialities of digital imaging processes. In current work I am interested in seeking different possibilities for representing female subjectivity that interrupt instinctive identification and objectification processes existing in conventional imagery of the female nude. While utilising the latest in digital imaging technology, the methodologies I employ reference the traditions of painting, in particular the French Neo-classicist Ingres portrait paintings. The emphasis is upon the decorative detail, sensuous distortion, and a flattened almost claustrophobic pictorial space. Digital technology allows for the rapid development of ideas and the large format prints a rapid expression of the electronic visual form, but it is still only through the labour and time consuming application of paint that my images find their full resolution. At times visceral, tactile, awkward, perverse and humorous, the work draws upon a diverse range of influences outside the mainstream to create a visual synthesis.
EDUCATION
Current Phd, School of Art at Hobart, University of Tasmania. 1987 Master of Fine Arts, School of Art at Hobart, University of Tasmania. 1978 Diploma of Fine Arts, Canberra School of Art.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Good Girl First Draft Gallery, Sydney.
1999 Good Girl CAST Gallery, Hobart. Shell Fremantle Print Award Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle. 1998 Offline curator KevinMurray, Jam Factory, Adelaide as part of Adelaide Arts Festival (Web site: w.w.w.kitezh.com/offline) Shell Fremantle Print Award Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle. (High Commendation) DARF Research Exhibition, University Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart.
1997 Containment curator ClareBond, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart. (CAST touring to selected venues around Australia.) Nought plus One DARF Research Exhibition, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart. Shell Fremantle Print Award Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle.
1996 Isea 96 Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Art, Rotterdam, Holland.
1995 Shadows on the Skin curator Clare Rice, CAST Touring, Long Gallery, Hobart (touring to 8 venues within Australia). Home:Body curator Brian Parkes, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery and Carnegie Room, Hobart. Colonial Past-time to Contemporary Practice Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart. Figure/Ground curator Ray Arnold, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart.
1994 WhatÕs worth showing curator Penny Mason, Queen Victorian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart. Tell me a story curator Pat Brassington, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart. The Flower curator Paul Zika, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart. (Touring to selected venues in Tasmania.) Diversities Northern Territory University Gallery, NT. Ideal Format curator Chris Downey, GO-LO Contemporary Art Space, Darwin Small Wonders Adelaide Arts Festival, Roundspace Gallery, Adelaide. Selected Acquisitions Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.
REFERRED TEXTS
White, Alice Eat Me Broadsheet Vol 29 No1 Autumn 2000 p15.
Spinks, Jennifer Mirror, Mirror: Cruelty and Innocence, Art in Australia, Vol 35, No 2, 1997, pp234-241.
Hansen, David Fling enough Mud, Art Monthly, Oct No 104 1997, pp22-23.
Knights, Mary To Have or to Hold, Artlink ,79 vol 17 no 3, pp79-80.
Hart, Bill and Klaosen, Di Being Digital, Imprint Autumn 1997, vol 32 no1, pp26-28.
Snell, Ted Much More to Life Beyond Politics, The Australian, Frid Sept 5 1997, p10.
Kunda, Maria The Pleasure is in the Paint : Art and Eroticism Siglo, no 8, June 1997, pp52-3. Bond, Claire The Contained Object, Object 1-97, pp28-9.
Deeth, Jane When you get behind closed doors, Artlink, vol 16 no1, Autumn 1996, p80.
Stasko, Nicolette Fruits of Light, Art in a Post-Modern Age, Siglo no5, March 1996, pp4-11.
Murray, Kevin In Case of millennium, break glass, Art Monthly, no 86 Dec 1995-Feb 1996, pp29-30.
McLean, Ian Home;Body, Art in Australia, vol 33 no 2, Summer1995, p287-8.
Calahan, Anthony Actions Louder than Words, Artlink, vol 15 no 4, Summer 1995, p80.
Spinks, Jenny Tell me a Story, Art Monthly, No 70, June 1994, pp22-23. Wilson, Catherine Framing a Story, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Issue 4, Winter 1994, pp36-39.
Hill, Peter Floral Attributes, Artlink, Vol 13 No 1, 1993, p87.
Hill, Peter Tasmania Link, Asia Art News, Sept/Oct 1992, pp74-75. Hill, Peter The Flower, Bulletin, Dec-Jan 1992-93, p153.
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Kunda, Maria Good Girl CAST Gallery Publication, November 1999.
Murray, Kevin Offline: An Exhibition of Soft Hardware, catalogue essay in Sacred and Profane, 1998 Adelaide
Festival Visual Arts Program, pp95-96
Bond, Clare Containment catalogue essay, Plimsoll Gallery Publication, University of Tasmania, 1997, pp6-13.
Rice, Clare, Excision, Shadows on the Skin, CAST Touring Publication, 1995. Spinks, Jennifer, My Fair Lady, Home:Body, Arthouse Tasmania Publication, July 1995, pp9-13.
Holmes, Jonathon, Tell me a Story, Plimsoll Gallery Publication, April, 1994, pp34-39. Mason, Penny, What's worth showing, Arthouse, Aug 1994.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1997-8 Large Australian Research Grant Characterization of Digital Mesostructures in Computer Generated Imagery , with G. Parr and B.Hart, University of Tasmania, Hobart. Australian Research Council GrantThe Application of Digital Printing Technologies to Traditional Painting and Printmaking Techniques, University of Tasmania, Hobart.
1996 Honary Visiting Fellow COFA, University of N.S.W. NSW Ministery of the Arts Gunnery Studios Residency Artspace, Sydney. Teaching Merit Certificate University of Tasmania, Hobart. Australian Research Council Grant The Application of Digital Printing Technologies to Traditional Painting and Printmaking Techniques, University of Tasmania, Hobart.
1995 Australian Research Council Grant The Application of Digital Printing Technologies to Traditional Painting and PrintmakingTechniques, with M Milojevic, University of Tasmania, Hobart.
1994 Teaching Merit Certificate University of Tasmania, Hobart. Arts Tasmania Grant Dichotomies.
1993 Australian Research Council Grant Dichotomies of Desire, University of Tasmania, Hobart. 1992 Departmental Research Grant School of Art, University of Tasmania< Hobart.
1991 Residency Grant Verdaccio Studio Quattrocento Painting, Italy, Australia Council, Visual Arts and Crafts Board. Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board Grant Quattrocento Painting, Travel Grant.
Email : Mary.Scott@utas.edu.au