Artist 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 a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture, alongside printmaking, film, installation and painting. Her material language spans marble, porcelain, bronze, steel, textiles, and ready-mades—each selected for its formal precision and conceptual resonance.

Stemming from a previous career as an anaesthetist (UCLH), Scott’s esoteric practice draws on the extensive dimensions of the human body, consciousness, the edges of knowledge, and the continuity between life and not life. Through classical forms such as figuration and drapery, she enters into a distinct, contemporary dialogue, exploring the fragility and complexity of being.

She explores the body, not as a mortal vessel or as a political and cultural vehicle related to notions of identity, but as a representation of immense otherness and profundity.

Her work navigates the threshold between beauty and inquiry. It often 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.