Robert Scott: The Stand
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The apparent simplicity of Robert Scott paintings masks a latent complexity that emerges largely unconsciously through the process of painting. The imagery conveys both a sense of comfort – a safe place – and a creeping anxiety – suggesting the state of malaise that increasingly characterises twenty-first century culture. We long for a haven from the trials and tribulations of a world that seems to be slipping away from us into an incomprehensible chaos.
Scott’s landscapes are marked by tropes and iconography that are familiar to South Islanders; however, the painter incorporates phantasmic details, figures emerging out of his imagination.His trees that are strange yet somehow familiar, the very essence of the uncanny. The precision and discipline with which these works are executed has a ritualistic accuracy, while the restricted yet colourful palette with which Scott works evokes a melody that is repeated with infinite and subtle variations. Viewers are invited to enter with the painter into this magical land. But we hesitate – we know that danger may lurk, its possibility behind each stand of trees.
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Robert Scott, "Creek Country", 2025, acrylic on plywood, 515mm w x 625mm h, framed.
Robert Scott, "Shelter Belts", 2025, acrylic on plywood, 472mm w x 706mm h, framed.
Robert Scott, "Last One in the Stand", 2025, acrylic on plywood, 468mm w x 568mm h, framed.
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