Charlene Scott was born in Edinburgh and lives and works in East Lothian, Scotland. Upon graduating in 2023 from the Edinburgh College of Art she was selected for the RSA New Contemporaries 2024 and awarded the RSA John Kinross Travel Scholarship to Florence, the experience of which continues to influence her practice through pattern and motif. In 2024 she was selected for the Glenfiddich Artist in Residence Award and shortlisted for The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize.
Working primarily with botanical pigment to create work on paper, Scott’s creative practice reflects the parallels she finds between minimalism and the principals of ecology; intimate observation, distillation and attention to nuance. Characterised by simplicity, repetition and abstraction, Scott’s practice has become a kind of homeopathic mechanism that intends to carry an essence of her relationship to materials and environment that is in celebration of the quiet and undramatic.
Fold 19 is part of an ongoing series of work on paper that follows the non-linear cycle of Scott’s creative journey through the slow accumulation of the pigments that she gathers and the environments that she moves through.
Fold 26 (composed of the earth and sky) evolved following a return visit to Italy in 2024. It is part of an ongoing series of work on paper that follows the non-linear cycle of Scott’s creative journey through the slow accumulation of pigments that she gathers and environments that she moves through.