Cathy Scott
Artworks
1946-2025
Education (Visual Arts)
2004-2006 Diploma of Visual Arts, CAE, Melbourne
2003 Certificate 1 Visual arts, CAE, Melbourne
Solo Exhibition
Outside my front door
Cathy Scott
Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
29 November – 9 December 2006
Group Exhibitions
Space Between
Patrick Delbosc, Sandra Levin, Ron Rydz, & Cathy Scott
Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
29 April-10 May 2008
Point of View
Sandra Dean, Marguerite Griffith, Tanya Korin, & Cathy Scott
Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne
2006
Fusion
Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
18-22 October 2005
Group exhibition
271 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
2005
Group exhibition
96 Flinders Street, Melbourne
2004
Access Arts Exhibition
96 Flinders Street, Melbourne
2003
Illustrations
Simply Poetry - Exploring the world of young children through poetry
Ellinor and David Campbell
Illustrations by Cathy Scott
2005 Tertiary Press
Winner of the Australian Publishers Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing
' ....a worthwhile artist can find a lifetime's painting within a mile of their front door'
(Adapted from John Brack, quoted in The Solitary Watcher: Rick Amor and his Art: Gary Catalano. The Mienguyah Press. Melbourne University Press, 2001. p32)
John Brack has stimulated me to revisit the experience of painting my immediate environment. After a somewhat sceptical start three years ago, stepping out from my 'front door' has taken me to some unexpected and exciting places. Starting with scenes inside my home and then venturing out into the surrounding streets, have made an effort to capture a different perspective of what were ordinary and familiar places to me. As my wanderings were usually early in the morning, familiar scenes turned into an engaging exchange between light and stillness. By pushing Brack's suggestion a little further, I began to introduce the idea that my 'front door' was in fact, just wherever I happened to be. So I travelled on the train to the city and looked out of the window at the ever changing cityscapes and building sites.
In 2006 I took my 'front door' to Sweden. While visiting family, I continued my wanderings; through the streets and alleyways of 'Old Town' Stockholm (Gamla stan), along the waterfront of the harbour, and onto the island of Djurgärden, which hosts Skansen, an old open-air museum.
Depending on the season, the natural light ranges from the extremes of days which seem to be in perpetual twilight, to nights that seem to be in perpetual dawn. This light can be very diffuse and the shadows at times illogical. What has been glimpsed at one moment has changed in the next. It is the first impression of looking down a street, along an alley or across the water that is so elusive. It is this experience of the first sighting that I am trying to hold.
The moments are as fleeting as a breath and the image captured lies somewhere between the desperate scribbles of a pencil, the belated photo and memory.
In 2008 | have again turned to areas closer to home but still in search of grasping this 'first sighting'. Wandering through the normally frantic, people-filled and busy streets of Carlton on early Spring mornings. Capturing the stillness of the restaurants and residences in the clear, strong post dawn light.
Then on to the Queen Victoria Market and the surrounding streets, moving away from the stillness of Carlton to the beginnings of busy Market days. Watching the dance of tourists, shoppers, sellers and visitors as they focus on their purpose oblivious to those around them.
Cathy Scott 2008