Mark Scott-Wood studied at Norwich School of Art & Design and at Byam Shaw School of Art. He currently lives and works in London. He uses disperate working methods from sculpture to performance in an attempt to explore the human condition. He often crafts found objects and the everyday to make the mundane beautiful, the grotesque enticing and the obscene seen.
His work has been described as "truly provacative, it's revealing, dangerous, poignant and though misleadingly immediate it demands further attention."
Artist Statement -
Objects that intrigue me are collected. The stuff that surrounds me is my medium. A fascination with process and material is what compels me. The application of texture and an ongoing experimentation with appearances is where my investigation continues into different forms of expression. The work that is not easily classified is the work that, for me, is most successful. In the grey areas in between the extremes is where I like my art to lurk. The subject matter for this is eclectic. The world is full of so many distractions; I take these distractions and make them the focus of what I do.
Selected Exhibitions & Events
2011 The Art Party {no.1} - Mol's Place, Covent Garden, London
2011 The Absurd Hero: Part 2 - Hatch Space, Deptford, London
2011 Shame - The Residence, London
2010 Things in Parcels - The Emely, London
2010 Performance of Protest - The National Portrait Gallery, London
2010 Fishtank Festival - The Rag Factory, London
2010 Vanishing Point - The Elevator Gallery, Hackney Wick, London
2010 ASC Open Studios - ASC Studios, Streatham Hill, London
2010 Rhizomatic - The Departure Gallery, Southall, London
2010 Pier Day - Worthing Pier, West Sussex
2010 The Bad Art Salon - Vintage at Goodwood, Goodwood Estate, Sussex
2010 Little London Fields Festival - London Fields, Hackney, London
2010 Z4RD Vol 2 Box of Desires - Centre for Recent Drawing, Islington, London
2010 Resort - The Residence, Hackney, London
2010 The Fishbowl - The Fishtank Festival, Queen of Hoxton, London
2010 The Middle of Nowhere - The Departure Gallery, Southall, London
2009 Tales That Witness Madness - The Elevator Gallery, Hackney Wick, London
2009 Lambeth Open - ASC Studios, Streatham Hill, London
2009 WET - The Stew Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk
2009 Streatham Artists - Open Studios - ASC Studios, Streatham Hill, London
2009 Worthless! - Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London
2008 Act Art 6 – Dying for it - The Arches, Waterloo, London
2008 Frieze Art Fair - Collaboration with Laura Lima & A Gentil Carioca, Brazil
2008 Streatham Artists Open Studios - ASC Studios, Streatham Hill, London
2008 The Shoreditch Shuffle - Cordy House, Curtain Road, London
2008 The Art Car Boot Fair - The Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London
2008 RetroJunk - The Deptford Arms, Deptford, London
2005 Tuesday - Kingsgate Gallery, Hampstead, London
.jpg "VT 2866 (card, parcel tape, potatoes, mushrooms)")
.jpg "Buffalo Fast Come Big Hard - detail (found objects, paint)")
.jpg "Poster (old magazines, paste, paint)")
.jpg "Jewels (semen, chain, paint, glitter, display stand)")
.jpg "Untitled (digital print)")
.jpg "Blue Banner (fabric, pole)")
 Photo - Ingrid Z.jpg "Bar (card, glue, paper, varnish) Photo - Ingrid Z")
.jpg "When the Moon Disappears (card, parcel tape, potatoes, mushrooms)")
.jpg "The Hoxton Oak (found materials, adhesive tape, expanding foam, lemons)")
.jpg "Untitled (60 alarms clocks each one a second slower than the one next to it)")
.jpg "Ghost (oak, concrete, mirror, lead)")
.jpg "Plinth - for fucking art (found box, old paint can, sock, mutliple layers of white gloss paint)")
.jpg "Institute (found objects, paint)")
Re: Mark Scott-Wood
Mon, 01/11/2010 - 00:55 — Robin TarbetHey Mark, fancy seeing you in a place like this!