THOMAS SCOTT

Born: 1984, Brazil

Lives and works in Stirling, Scotland

Tom is a self taught woodworker and also works in a Design and Technology department in secondary education.

Unable to reach the woodwork shop due to the pandemic lockdown measures in 2020, Tom started making handburnished tree prints out of his backgarden, after coming across the work of the artist Bryan Nash Gill in a home decoration magazine. His prints offer an insight into the life trajectory of trees and examines similarities between their  ''stories'' and our own individual life stories.

His work is an example of how it is possible for artists to utilise modern CNC technology and traditional printmaking equipment and techniques to achieve unique work.

Tom invites the viewer to look at a tree’s biography, where periods of ‘’hardship’’ and “abundance” can be deciphered by looking closely at the variation of its growth rings over its lifetime.

Whilst absorbed by the exercise of finding sense in the concentric lines of Tom’s prints, the viewer may find him or herself entangling the life trajectory of the tree with their own personal history.

2022 - VACMA Award (Visual Arts and Craftmakers Award)

2023- DCA Print Studio collective show at Birnam Arts

2023- Autumn Editions at Made in Stirling

-DCA Print Studio collective Show at Dundee Contemporary Arts