Scott is based in Brisbane but also makes art in Florence, Italy for some of his year. This is where he is working with the TIAC group on the establishment of an exciting new representational fine art education institution.
“Two main themes characterise Scott’s new collection: one is the use of geometric planes and other simple forms to articulate the space around and interact with both figures and landscapes, an abstraction of the Renaissance preoccupation with the perspectival setting. The other theme is the specific effort to pursue imagery, mood or poses without having an intentional meaning before beginning the work, and instead follow elements that seem to be tapping into my unconscious in some way.
I have attempted to listen to the impulses coming from the images and allow them to become what they will, trusting the sense of fascination or intrigue as a guide to the generation of an image that will resonate with others. How and where a line touches the skin, or what a pose without clear narrative content says, or how natural form pushes against an artificially geometric form seems to contain psychic content that perhaps cannot be concertised in other ways.”
– Scott Breton
Image: The Geometry of Thirst | Scott Breton, Graphite on paper | 56 x 75cm
