Sandra 
Scott

Born in Barbados, Sandra Scott is a textile artist, quilter, painter and printmaker. She studied Art Education at The Jamaica School of Art [now the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts], and after moving to Cambridge where she continued to develop her art practice while raising a family, she completed her MA in printmaking at the Cambridge School Art, Anglia Ruskin University.  

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The current focus of her work is on memory and forgetting as well as reflections of the Caribbean landscape. Her distinctive combination of lines, patterns and marks sourced from her own drawings are masterfully transformed into stitches and textural multi-dimensional artworks. Through a unique process of construction, de-construction and re-construction, her works are a masterclass in traditional as well as experimental and innovative textile art, resulting in artworks which not only physically embody but reflect and reference many layers of meaning. 

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combining overlapping and intertwining these media that she explores the themes and issues associated with and relating to memories. Her practice also involves investigating the use of traditional and non-traditional art materials to create her art.

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The process she employs reference and demonstrates the fragility, unreliability, deterioration and fragmentary nature of memory. Her use of non-traditional materials like tissue paper and organza fabric reinforces these characteristics by their own fragile qualities. capturing a sense of delicacy and vulnerability.

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"My practice investigates ways of combining print-making and embroidery across of range of material and surfaces, using objects as metaphors and symbols to communicate my thoughts and ideas. I take pleasure in creating dialogue between and across the materials I use, as well as between the viewer and the subjects I explore. My process allows me to create new narratives which also pays homage to the past."

 

Sandra Scott's work has been exhibited in Barbados, Jamaica, the UK and the USA and is held in a number of public collections including the Ministry of Education, Jamaica and the Barbados Alzheimers Association, as well as in private collections internationally. Two of her quilts have been acquired for the Permanent Collection of the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA and have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in 2023.