About
Lotte Scott’s work examines the relationship between place, time and material, with a particular focus on her native Somerset landscapes. Scott’s earlier works centred on the peat moors of the Somerset Levels, exploring the indexical nature of peat as a living archive of land and people. In recent years her focus has been the limestone landscapes of the Isle of Portland and the Mendip Hills – drawn to Portland as a place of extraction and absence, and to the ancient burial sites of Mendip. Using charcoal and lime as counterpoint materials – both carbon rich substances, transformed through fire – she explores themes of loss, preservation and disintegration. The earth materials she employs are transformed, but not fixed; her pieces often spread, shift and degrade over time. Scott is an environmentalist with a mission to speak of and from the land. In an age of disconnection and over-consumption, her practice invites reverence for material and place.
Lotte Scott was born in 1990 and grew up in Somerset, where she now lives and works. She studied BA Art Practice at Goldsmiths University and MFA Sculpture at the Slade School of Art. In 2020 she was the recipient of the Gilchrist Fischer Award. Her work has been exhibited at: Black Swan Arts, Somerset (2023), SAW Festival, Somerset (2022), B-Side Festival, Portland (2021), Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London (2020), Groundwork Gallery, Norfolk (2019), The Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge (2018), OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich (2018).
