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In Conversation with Stuart Sutcliffe

2012-02-28T21:21:00.020Z

This touring exhibition involves an invited selection of artists, each developing a dialogue with Stuart by responding to his life and work.

HAMBURG. CCA&A Gallery. 10th April - 9th May 2012

Steven Scott. Point of Departure. 2012. Dual Giclee print. 124 x 43cms

Point of Departure consists of two digital images derived from a monochrome photograph of a waterway in Hamburg harbour. These images are made up of alternate vertical strips of the original photograph and are designed to be installed at 90 degrees to each other so that the vanishing point of the waterway seems to recede in different directions. A suggestion of a stereoscopic effect is implied by these dual perspectives, enhanced by a subtle lateral shifting of the elements within each picture. Each image appears to be the complement of the other but, in fact, carries slightly different and conflicting visual information.

Point of Departure explores levels of assumption and intention involved in the process of looking, whilst alluding to notions of options and life choices, referencing those made by Sutcliffe in his move to Hamburg to play music and his subsequent choice to pursue visual art.

Call me Ishmael

2011-03-24T12:50:00.007Z

'Call me Ishmael:
An Exhibition on the theme of Moby Dick'
Parfitt Gallery, Croydon
Feb - April 2011

Steven Scott. 'Re-appearance' 2011
Super 8 film telecined to DVD. Concave mirror. Video projector
6 minutes. Looped. Silent

Steven Scott. 'Disappearance' 2011
Screenprint with hand-cut hole
Edition of 25

Press Release

The Parfitt Gallery is pleased to present Call me Ishmael: an exhibition inspired by Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, the first ‘Great American Novel’ published in 1851. This major group show consists of a number of responses to Melville’s epic novel and to the book’s most famous adaptation, John Huston’s Moby Dick (1956). Stephen Grimes was Assistant Art Director for the classic film and a collection of his working storyboards form the foundation for this exhibition, together with unique photographs taken on set. His storyboards map out a vision that brings the literary masterpiece to life for the big screen, creating a visual experience from the written word.

Exhibiting work in this exhibition are: Stephen Grimes, Guy Ben-Ner, Angela Cockayne, Philip Hoare, Clara Drummond, Steph Goodger, Oona Grimes, Tony Grisoni, Mark Hampson, Linder, Jonny Hannah, Vanessa Hodgkinson, Serena Korda, Flora Parrott, Steven Scott and Louie Psihoyos.

Works include: Steph Goodger’s Terraqueous 2009, a 4-metre multi-panel painting of the first measurable skeleton of a sperm whale that was washed up on Tunstall Beach, Yorkshire in 1825. Melville took great inspiration from accounts of the Tunstall whale from Thomas Beale’s book The Natural History of the Sperm Whale and it is believed to contain the closest evidence of the lost manuscript for Moby Dick. Guy Ben-Ner’s Moby Dick 2000 sees the artist transform his kitchen into a make believe film-set, creating a playground for the re-enactment of the classic tale by him and his daughter. Angela Cockayne and Philip Hoare’s Dominion 2009 creates a dreamlike encounter with the whale by incorporating Cockayne’s chimerical objects, part animal and part sculpture with the written words of Hoare; relating to Moby Dick and also his award winning book Leviathan or the Whale 2008.

A number of new pieces have been made specifically for this show including Oona Grimes and Tony Grisoni’s Postcards from the Pequod; a multi media installation set on the deck of the Pequod where Polanski introduces Poe to Pinocchio. Steven Scott’s new film piece traces a distant horizon whilst playing with representations of space through the subjective nature of perception. Flora Parrott attempts to capture an essence in a new sculpture work of the shoulder section of the sperm whale, highlighting her continued interest in compression and the human compulsion to capture and contain, and Mark Hampson has traced four stories relating to the naming of the Moby Dick Roundabout, a black spot on the A13, by incorporating folklore, local accounts and myth making.

The Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS) is a partner for this exhibition and the beneficiary of a number of fund raising events incorporated within the show. OPS is a non-profit organisation that creates film, photography and media to inspire people to save the oceans. Founded in 2005 by renowned photographer and avid diver Louie Psihoyos, OPS is headquartered in Boulder, CO, conveniently between two oceans.

OPS’s first film, The Cove 2009, won dozens of awards around the world, including the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2009, and inspired over a million people to action.

The Parfitt Gallery is pleased to be supporting OPS throughout this exhibition with The White Whale, a box set of prints that all the exhibiting artists are contributing to. A charity auction and special screening of The Hunt for Moby Dick, presented by Philip Hoare, have been organised in collaboration with the Royal College of Art.

Michael Hall ma rca
Parfitt Gallery Curator

www.parfittgallery.croydon.ac.uk

Mediations Biennale 2010

2011-03-24T11:56:00.006Z

'Erased Walls'
Mediations Biennale 2010
Poznan, Bratislava, Berlin

Oct - Nov 2010

Steven Scott 'Electric City: A Modulated Image' 2010. Video projection / DVD. Looped. Silent

A real time video of a decaying neon sign depicting the word ‘Electricity’ is projected onto a wall of a disused electricity substation. The sign flickers as it dies, transforming the visual word into a physical object, no longer able to transmit its meaning in a purely linguistic form. ‘Electric city, a Modulated Image’ takes the re-iteration / re-utteration of words and the subsequent decay or evolution of their meaning, and focuses on electricity as the enabler of the infinite manifestations of these spoken and visualised word/images across international borders.

Here the temporal element introduced into the word image via the sign’s flicker, the repetition and the re-presentation of the word in this video, attempts a visual equivalent to the ‘stutter’, identifying the repeated or vibrated word as an intensifier of the foreignness in ones own language.

Meanings become extended to their limit and ultimately the spoken word is reduced to an abstract sound, the visual word to a silent glyph.

Steven Scott

www.erasedwalls.eu

GAS Station Gallery, Berlin

2011-03-24T11:33:00.007Z

'The Thing: Object and Individual'
GAS Station Gallery Berlin
Nov 2010 - Feb 2011

Steven Scott. 'Intentional Objects' 2010. Digital drawings on DVD. 04:20. Silent

Taking Husserl’s theory of Intentionality; that consciousness always exists in relation to something, as its starting point this video uses sequences of lines and suggestions of forms derived from grids of axonometric projections. These projections are mathematical abstractions used in architectural diagrams to define space schematically.
These axonometric abstractions are formed by breaking the grid down to a series of constituent parts and rebuilding it over time, transforming the perceived forms from a static visual code to a temporal composition that is experienced subjectively via a process of conscious retention, mental reconstruction and projected intention.

Steven Scott

www.2gas-station.net

Images from Interstice July 2010. London

2010-09-16T12:33:00.001+01:00

Interstice: Exhibition at TestBed1 Project Space

2010-06-28T23:10:00.016+01:00

Press release

Interstice: a small crevice or interval between objects or events.

Interstice is an exhibition of new works by Andrew Curtis, Michael Hall, Flora Parrott and Steven Scott;
each artist developing a series of individual responses to the opportunities afforded by the TestBed1 project space. Consisting of diverse approaches to the use of photographic prints, text, sculptural forms and video projections, the show will evolve over time as the work is subject to an ongoing process of refinement; all four artists responding to new proximities, forming new alignments and enhancing shifts in the potential reading of their original intentions.
The title of the show indicates an awareness of 'that which sits between', and acknowledges that conceptual localities will be addressed and common ground revealed, ensuring that this is a group show that becomes more than the sum of its parts.

The second part of Interstice will take the form of a published book of photographs, drawings and texts that extend the premise of the work in this exhibition. Processes of reassessment and realignment will continue through this publication and will be made available late 2010.

- Andrew Curtis continues his interest in the surface facade of suburbia. For Interstice he will show a new work, Wild England, a slide show and accompanying material 'promoting' the Torbay Palm. He is represented by Nicola Scaglione Gallery in Italy and shows with Payne Shurvell in London (www.payneshurvell.com)

- Michael Hall's work exists as a distillation of his encounters with mass media; carefully selecting examples from cinema, literature, music and television he endeavours to extend emotional readings beyond mere signifiers by fusing disparate images and text. For Interstice he is exhibiting a series of processed print works from his Monochrome Exasperation series.

- Flora Parrott's work derives from a compulsion to explain a state of ‘being’, a state that is always evolving and changing. She will be showing a series of sculptures and images that function as diagrams to explain the human compulsion to capture and contain. Flora is represented by Tintype Gallery London. (www.tintypegallery.com)

- Steven Scott’s video and light projections silently animate deconstructed grids and line drawings of site-specific perspectives. He endeavours to reveal relationships between these temporal drawings as coded representations of schematic space and the subjective nature of perception that struggles to decode these visual conventions as they play out over time.

For further information please contact
hall.m@hotmail.co.uk
mail@steven-scott.co.uk
or visit -

www.andrewcurtis.net
www.michaelhallartist.co.uk
www.floraparrott.com
www.steven-scott.co.uk

TestBed1 Project Space,
33 Parkgate Road,
Battersea,
London SW11 4NP

Interstice exhibition poster

2010-06-19T10:26:00.000+01:00