The Shelter of Broken Wings

Scott will produce a new sculptural piece for the Watch Tower, based on the Glasgow phenomenon of the ‘doocot’ – an urban dovecote structure often discovered in lonely areas of social neglect. The work will exploit the rituals of the doocot’s construction and (often violent) deconstruction, using this large-scale object with its overtones of ambivalent anonymity and threatening presence as an unlikely contemporary metaphor for hope. The sculpture will not reproduce the pre-existing structures, but will echo their idiosyncratic components of corrugated iron, doors, handles, and stairs to develop a form that reflects a local social orientation and an international metaphorical and political signification.

Scott is a Scottish artist based between Glasgow and Paris.

Since graduating from the two-year post-graduate Master of Fine programme at The Glasgow School of Art Scott has exhibited across Europe and further a-field. With recent exhibitions including Transmission @ re-escape in Hamburg, ‘Exit Strategy’ (CAFA, Beijing), 'Syncopations: Art from Great Britain Now!' (Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm), the Prospects Drawing Prize, (Tea Buildings, London) and 'Play' (Arts Academy, Budapest).

In addition, Scott was awarded the prestigious 2005 Glasgow Sculpture Studios Graduate Scholarship.

Forthcoming exhibitions include ‘Face of an Angel, Voice of a Demon’, commissioned by E m e r g e D for Glasgow International and a two-person exhibition at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.