Julia Scott: Art, science and serendipity

13 July 2011: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Julia Scott: Art, science and serendipity at Satellite Gallery

Painter Julia Scott brings together art and science at Satellite Gallery, 30 July and 16 August.

The venue is aptly named to present an exhibition of Julia’s paintings, the result of her ongoing curiosity about ideas and images drawn from physics, mathematics and psychology; ideas she finds enticingly complex, subtle and paradoxical.

Through her painting process, concepts become a contemplation and interaction of scientific ideas and imagination as well as a quest for understanding of things just out of reach.

A response to any painting is very personal. One person responds to colour; someone else responds to shape or another association within the work. It depends on how we make sense of what we encounter. It is a complex and unique mix of individual and shared experiences ‘cobbled’ together through instinct, experience, knowledge and culture, among other things.

Underpinning Scott’s process is an awareness of the power of our collective human understanding and shared ‘reality’ that enables dialogue and consideration of apparently disparate conceptions.

Scott’s work does not depict concepts literally, but draws on and combines an external research-based approach with the internal more spiritual and unconscious world of the imagination. Common to both is the wonderful paradox of apparent complexity, ambiguity, subtlety and simplicity.

“I am intrigued by the interaction between art and science, imagination, the physical process of painting and how we collectively and individually perceive and understand what we see.”

The exhibition will take place at the Vernacular Lounge, Satellite Gallery in Newton.

Julia Scott

30 July – 16 August 2011

Vernacular Lounge

Satellite Gallery

Corner of St Benedicts Street and Newton Road

Newton

Phone (09) 963 2331

About the artist:

Julia Scott graduated with a MLitt (Art History) from St Andrews University in 2002; a Diploma in Social Sciences (Psychology) from Massey University; and BA in English Literature from Victoria University. She has completed Summer Schools in Art History at Cambridge University, UK and in fine art at the Slade School of Fine Art London and a series of classes at the Hampstead School of Art also in London.

Julia began painting in 2002 and has exhibited since 2005 in solo and groups shows.

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