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Exploring New Places
Heather Scott, sculptor and painter

REVIEW BY BRIGID TOOLE GRANT

Exploring New Places: Heather Scott, sculpteur et peintre
par Brigid Toole Grant

New Places est le titre de l'exposition qui a eu lieu en novembre 1987 à Fredericton à la Gallery Connexion. L'artiste y présentait dix grandes toiles et une vingtaine de dessins qu'elle avait peints pendant les voyages d'étude qu'elle effectua en Extrême-Orient, en Nouvelle-Zélande, au Mexique et dans les provinces Atlantiques. Les thèmes, les couleurs, les reflets métallises et les personnages de la mythologie reflètent l'influence qu'ont exercée sur l'artiste les lieux ou elle se rendit.

L'oeuvre de Scott est de façon voulue irrationnelle. De nombreux personnages semblent vulnérables, anxieux, érotiques. Scott remet aussi en question ce qu'on accepte de façon conventionnelle comme du grand art, soit la représentation des fantasmes érotiques masculins dont le maître fut Picasso. New Places: une exposition qui donne à la fois une impression de chaos et d'espoir.

Heather Scott est représentée par la Gallery Connexion, 204 Fulton Avenue, Frédéricton, N.B.


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Breath of Reason,
by Heather Scott

After graduating from Mt. Allison University in 1981 with a B.F.A. with Distinction, Heather Scott lived in Fredericton, often exhibiting both sculptures and drawings in many parts in New Brunswick and elsewhere in the Maritimes. In 1985 she received a Commonwealth scholarship, and has since traveled through the Far East, spent two years in New Zealand where she had a one-person show and received a M.F.A., and has lived in Ottawa, New Mexico, New Brunswick and Newfoundland. Her recent exhibition, New Places, shown in November, 1987, at Gallery Connexion in Fredericton, contained ten large canvases and more than twenty works on paper all made during these peripatetic years.

Parts of the exhibition show the influence of place. Geography suggests the subjects and colours of the New Mexico paintings; the Far East may have contributed the metallic gleams in some pieces; and contemporary New Zealand art contains mythological figures similar to the winged creatures in the large canvases.

Underlying the exhibition as a whole is the influence of travel itself. Scott's work is intentionally irrational. Starting from a spontaneous gesture made in response to the figure, or from the process of painting, she finds suggestions of emotionally potent images, and embeds but never explains them, in re-worked layers of paint and charcoal. Many of the works in the exhibition evoke the emotions of a traveler: uprooted, surprised, concerned, and made sensitive and self-aware by the stranger she sees reflected in the eyes of the natives. Among the New Zealand drawings are: a huddled female torso touched pink at breasts and genitals; a seated figure, quivering, hands raised to ribs; a partial figure, torso and legs upside down and emerging from translucent white. All of them are vulnerable, anxious, erotic.


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