Statement

Scott Baxter (he/him) studied Intermedia Art at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 2015. His interdisciplinary approach to making includes drawing, painting, printmaking, object making, photography, filmmaking, writing, spoken-word performance and installation.

Baxter’s current practice focuses on experimental printmaking examining minority identities and imagery where digital technologies have become part of everyday identity creation and archiving. His work also responds to historical minority invisibility by subverting our understandings of common social allegories to generate new contexts for new agency to exist across open-ended visual narratives.

Baxter has received a number of awards and scholarships and has been selected for exhibition across the UK including Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, 2023; Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London, 2023; ARCUS Pride Exhibition, London, 2021; RSA: New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, 2016; and New Scottish Artists at DRAF / Fleming Collection, 2016. Scott’s work is held in the public collection of Aberdeen Galleries and Museums, Scotland and private collections in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Canada and the USA.

His work features in UN//TITLED, An anthology of queer contemporary art 2016-2020, Balaclava.Q, John Hopper Publishing, London and Issue 61 of Inspirational Art Magazine, 2022.

Prior to becoming an artist, Baxter studied architecture at the Glasgow School of Art and practiced in Zimbabwe, China and Ireland.