Artists Statement

“ A unique perspective. This is a rich territory that is perhaps underexplored elsewhere. Through both her professional gaze and commentary, combined with an artistic and poetic sensibility, new insights and intersections have been made.” RCA Tutor 2025.

Hannah Scott is primarily a sculptor, alongside printmaking, film, installation and painting. Praised for combining skilled techniques such as stone carving and etching with esoteric conceptual rigour, her material language spans marble, porcelain, bronze, steel, textiles, and ready-mades—each selected for its formal precision.

Stemming from a previous career as a hospital doctor (anaesthetist), Scott’s practice draws on the extensive dimensions of the human body, consciousness, the edges of knowledge, and the continuity between life and not life. In parallel, the work questions our problematic relationship with progress and innovation.

She explores the body not as a mortal vessel or a vehicle for notions of identity, but as a representation of immense profundity. At times it touches on divinity. And puts this in discourse with current notions of development.

Her work navigates the threshold between beauty and inquiry. It presents itself with quiet seductions— a folded cloth, a constellation of stars, a young girl, inviting aesthetic pleasure. But beneath these surfaces lies a deeper intent not motivated by response. Rather, an investigation into the unresolvable nature of human experience, and the spaces that exist beyond life. Scott’s work poses open-ended questions about what it means to be and to confront the unknown. There is an intellect in the work—an ability to hold vulnerability and knowledge in balance. It does not seek to comfort, but to connect; to reveal universal truths, and gently agitate them until they resonate.

The results feel both intimate and expansive.