Gwen Scott lives in Melbourne, Australia and works from her home studio producing original colour and black & white limited edition prints. Gwen works full-time as a printmaker and specialises in the reduction technique to produce her colourful prints. All her prints are hand cut and hand pulled by her and the finest 100% cotton rag paper, oil-based inks and Silk Cut linoleum are used.
Gwen's iconography stems from her interests in classical mythology, the human form, animals, human lifecycle, surrealism, gardens & landscapes and the every-day.
Gwen has held numerous solo exhibitions and regularly participates in group shows, print exchanges and competitions and has won awards for her reduction linocut prints. Her work is held in many public and private collections around Australia.
Education:
Certificate in Art & Design, Newcastle Technical College, New South Wales
Bachelor of Art, University of Newcastle, New South Wales
Graduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning (Higher Education), RMIT University, Victoria
Public Collections:
Austin Hospital, VIC
Australian Print Workshop, VIC
Canson Australia, Pty Ltd
Geelong College, VIC
Genazzano FCJ College, VIC
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, QLD
Grafton Regional Art Gallery, NSW
National Gallery of Australia
Presbyterian Ladies College, VIC
Print Council of Australia
St Catherine's School, VIC
St Vincent's Hospital, VIC
State Library of Victoria
Stonnington City Council, VIC
Tintern Grammar School, VIC
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery & Museum, QLD
Westminister School, SA
Whitehorse ArtSpace, VIC
Awards, Prizes & Invitations:
2017 Nillumbik Prize, Montsalvat, Barn Gallery, Eltham [Finalist] 3rd Global Print 2017 [Invited artist], Douro, Portugal
Second Prize winner, 2017 Small print, Canterbury Art Show, Melbourne
2016 Award - Print Council of Australia Print Commission award winner.
Second Prize winner, 2016 Annual Members Exhibition, Oak Hill Gallery, Mornington, VIC. Judge Ingrid Hoffmann
Second Prize winner, True Roots Printmaking Exhibition, 2016, Oak Hill Gallery, Mornington, VIC. Judge Rodney Forbes
2015 Second prize winner, True Roots Printmaking Exhibition, Oak Hill Gallery, Mornington, Victoria, VIC. Judge Marion Crawford.
Best Continuous Line Prize, Summer Salon, 2015, Firestation Print Studio, Melbourne, VIC. Judge Neil Wallace.
Solo Exhibitions:
2017 Pomona Redux, TACIT Galleries, Abbotsford, VIC
Pomona & Dog: Selected works, Dench Bakers Cafe/Gallery, VIC
Selected Works, All Nations Foyer, Whitehorse Artspace, Box Hill Town Hall , VIC
Pomona & orchards, Wyreena Arts Lounge, Wyreena Community Arts Centre, VIC
2016 Pomona, orchards & motifs, Boulevard@Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC
2015 Dog, woman & garden, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, Melbourne, VIC
2014 Gwen Scott & Matt Hill: Dogs Posing: works in print & steel, Firestation Print Studio Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Current work, Box Hill Community Arts Centre, Alcove Wall, Box Hill, VIC
2013 Dog, Opendrawer, Window & Gallery, Toorak Road, Melbourne
Juried and Curated Group Exhibitions:
2018
Editions 2018, Tacit Galleries, Collingwood, VIC [Feb]
Editions [Redux], Tacit Galleries, Collingwood, VIC [Feb-Mar]
Queenscliff Literary Exhibition, Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop, VIC [May]
9th INTERNATIONAL PRINTMAKING BIENNIAL, DOURO, Portugal [Aug-Oct]
Hit me with your best shot, BOAA Biennale of Australian Art [Sept - Nov], Ballarat, VIC.
2017
3rd Global Print 2017 [Invited artist], Douro, Portugal
All teeth and swagger - dog in art, Red Gallery : Contemporary Art, Fitzroy North,VIC
Australian Print Workshop Exhibition, The G.R.A.I.N. Store, Nathalia, VIC
Editions 2017: Tacit's Annual Print Exhibition, Tacit Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Editions [Redux], Tacit Contemporary Art, Melbourne
The Forest : Printmaker Gallery Annual Group Exhibition, PG Gallery, Melbourne
Gippsland Print Award, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, VIC
Imaginings : a print exchange folio & exhibition project, Neospace, Melbourne
Impressions : a celebration of fine art printmaking, Manyung Gallery Malvern,VIC
Land, sea & sky, Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, VIC
Nillumbik Prize, Montsalvat, Barn Gallery, Eltham, VIC [Finalist]
Print Council of Australia Pop-Up exhibition of past commissioned prints & launch of new look Imprint Magazine, Pop-Up Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, curated by Marguerite Brown
Canterbury Art Show,Canterbury, Melbourne, VIC
2016
Postcards from the North and South (with FPS, PressNorth Townsville and Printmakers Tsubata Japan) Firestation Print Studio Gallery, Melbourne
Backyard birds: Firestation Limited Edition Book Project Exhibition, Firestation Print Studio Gallery, Melbourne
Deep South and Down Under: a print exchange between Atlanta printmakers & Firestation printmakers, exhibition at Firestation Print Studio Gallery, Melbourne
Panolpy : print exchange folio project and exhibition, Metropolis Gallery, Geelong, curated by Rona Green
Impressions 2016, Australian Print Workshop’s major fundraising exhibition, APW, Gertrude Street, Melbourne
2015
Glow, Prints from Australia, The Framing Salon, London, UK, curated by Marguerite Brown
Replicate, Beth Hulme Gallery & Studio, Melbourne
Annual exhibition, Canterbury Art Show, Canterbury
True Roots, Printmaking Exhibition, Oak Hill Gallery, Mornington
Gippsland Print Award Exhibition, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
Postcards from the North and South, (Print Exchange with PressNorth Printmakers in Townsville and Cork Printmakers in Ireland), Firestation Print Studio Gallery, Melbourne
2014
King Valley Art Show, King Valley Cucina
Inkmasters 2014 (Finalist), Tank Arts Centre, Cairns, Queensland
Global Gathering of Hounds, Without Pier Gallery, Melbourne
Compact Prints International Print Exchange, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, Queensland
Little Wonder, Beth Hulme Gallery & Studio, Melbourne, curated by Beth Hulme
Above the Mantle, Maroondah City Gallery, Melbourne
2013
Three artist’s, Hogan Gallery, Melbourne, curated by John Hogan
Gone to the Dogs, Gecko Studio Gallery, Fish Creek, Victoria, curated by Kerry Spokes
Animalia: International Print Exchange, Mill Factory Gallery, Bowral (Invited artist), curated by Annie Day & Robyn Day
Urban Imprints: Sites and Surfaces, Kinross House Arts & Spirituality Centre, Melbourne
Toorak Village Traders Association Exhibition in the shopfronts, Toorak, Melbourne
Public Talks/Blogs/Miscellaneous:
Saturday Forum: The place of prints, 25 February, 2017, [Discussion between Alisa Bunbury, Andrew Stephens, Gwen Scott & Prue Bentley], Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria in collaboration with Print Council of Australia
Imprint Magazine 2016 PCA Print Commission Q&A: Gwen Scott, PCA Blog post, October, 2016
