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Lisa Scrimgeour
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University: 1st class BA (Hons) Fine art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
Graduation Year: 2012
New Blood Art Statement
Lisa Scrimgeour’s work questions perceptions of the art world (including the art world’s perception of itself) as a world apart. Notions of a radical openness are chastened by our sudden understanding of a shameful conservatism and the rigour with which society conditions how, and even if, we see. Walking a dangerous line between documentary and high aestheticism, the works invite, or rather induce, visceral and instantaneous responses but are paradoxically far from realistic.
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Artist Statement
I am an artist currently based in Dundee, Scotland. I am predominately a portrait artist interested in culture, identity and stigma. My paintings contain a visceral quality that responds to the fragility and the vulnerability of the flesh. My initial ambition was to challenge traditional concepts of our interior and exterior identities. I sought to use my art to arouse questions of beauty and ugliness, of disfigurement and difference and in turn question the viewer’s responses to prejudice, stereotyping and perhaps even subconscious responses to help establish a position on the phenomena of social perception within an art context.Read More...
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