Statement

Scott Baxter is an Edinburgh based printmaker who works from photography and found imagery relating to queer cinema, literature and performance. He investigates how images can become unthreaded or woven together when printed, but he also embraces unconventional materials, such as mirrors, fabrics and polymer tiles that create movement in the work.

The work Baxter makes invites the viewer to be part of the work. Either seeing themselves reflected in partially printed mirror, producing movement of air to animate images on organza or light weight polymer tiles, or physically altering the image printed on reservable sequin fabrics.

The pieces Baxter makes create a link between an ongoing physical archive of queer imagery and the viewer constructing temporal moments of connection. The visual insertion into, or the physical contribution by, the viewer suggests they are part of the archive rather than objectively separate from it. This creates a form of living archive that creates unique experiences and interactions with every viewer.

Baxter is currently preparing a new body of screen prints for his first solo exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers, Scotland in January 2027. The work is a response, 55 years since release, to the queer art house film Pink Narcissus created by James Bidgood.

Baxter has received a number of awards and scholarships and has been selected for exhibition across the UK including Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London; Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London; ARCUS Pride Exhibition, London; RSA: New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy; and New Scottish Artists at DRAF / Fleming Collection. His work is held in the permanent collections of Aberdeen Galleries and Museums, Scotland, The Pallant House Gallery, England, 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.