Elizabeth Rollins Scott

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Elizabeth Rollins-Scott has a specialist interest in all things spiritual and mythical. Her work is varied and eclectic and is inspired partly by experience and also from vivid dreams in addition to her artistic influences. Since graduating from college, Elizabeth has maintained a strong professional art practice, although this has been supplemented over the years with experiences in the fashion industry, art therapy, art lecturing and tarot reading.
Elizabeth has, over the course of the last decade, also developed works for the Ballet Rambert, a Shakesperean actors company and developed set designs for a 12 piece Latin Orchestra, Sandunga as well as working with Colin Riley, a composer working with the English National Opera, who composed a work especially to accompany the works displayed on this site and entitled `Still Moving`. (hear the composition on Elizabeth`s website)
In addition to the arts, Elizabeth has been instrumental in establishing several arts communities in West London, which included setting up Diesel House Studios, one of the foremost artist communities that has shown the works of hundreds of artists and continues to nurture and develop a new generation of artists and crafts people.
Elizabeth now lives and works her home-studio in Somerset which has allowed Elizabeth to focus on developing a new body of sculpture which is being prepared for exhibitions in the forthcoming year.
Since my early childhood, I have had a fascination with the esoteric and spiritual dimensions of life that has been based upon my profound personal experiences with auras and energies, which have included visions, dreams and physical manifestations. My inspiration has also been drawn from both the primitive forms of antiquity as well as the religious sculptures and art forms of both the Gothic, Medieval and Renaissance periods.
Throughout my career I have predominantly developed two bodies of work: one vessel and sculptural based, which is ostensibly my angelic sculptural works and my sleeping heads and the other, figurative and landscape works, which are developed from complex surfaces inspired by my love of Egyptian and Coptic textiles and explored through the medium of print and painting, but throughout, there is a strong overriding common language and synergistic relationship which elucidates the relation between the modes, that is evidenced by both the complex application of layers and detailed markings and patterns.
My work moreover is approached from a multi-disciplinary perspective and invites insights and techniques from all media in which I work, namely, ceramics, sculpture, painting and printmaking. This rich vocabulary allows me to not only challenge conventional thinking but also work outside traditional boundaries.
Sculptures by Elizabeth Rollins Scott
Credentials
Qualifications
Diploma in Fine Art - Isleworth School of Art and Design
BA Fine Art (Hons) - Hornsey
City of London University - Art Therapy,Diploma in Fine Art - Isleworth School of Art and Design
BA Fine Art (Hons) - Hornsey
City of London University - Art TherapyExhibitions
Exhibitions
Solo Shows
Nawar Gallery, Highgate, London 2005
Goose Gallery, Dorset 2003
Bank Gallery, Chobham, Surrey 2002
Riverhouse Barn, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey 2001
Orleans House, Twickenham, Surrey 2000
Hounslow Afro Caribbean Association, London 1999
Time Changes, Isleworth Festival with the Ballet Rambert 1999
The Organic Cafe Gallery, London 1999
Newman House, Richmond, Surrey 1999
Redlees Arts & Crafts Stables, London 1998
Hounslow Civic Centre, London 1997/1998Group Shows
Clifton Fine Art 2018 to Date
Bath Contemporary 2012 to 2016
Trowbridge Gallery, Castle Cary, Somerset 2008
Serena Hall, Southwold, Suffolk 2007/08
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surrey 2006/07/08
Facets of Avelon, Glastonbury, Somerset 2006/2007
Dover Street Arts Club, London, W1 2007
Blue Lias, Lyme Regis, Dorset 2006/07/08
Art File Gallery, Bicester, Oxon 2006/07
Red Biddy Gallery, Surrey 2006/07/08
Strawberry Fish Gallery, Hampshire 2006/07/08
Nawar Gallery, Highgate, London 2006
Osterley House, Isleworth, London 2005
Grove Fair, Westbourne Grove, London 2005
Diesel House Studios, London 2005
Diesel House Studios, London 2004
Thomas Gallery, Gabriels Wharf, London 2003
Diesel House Studios, London 2003
Modern Artists Gallery, Pangbourne, nr Reading, Berkshire 2002
Diesel House Studios, London 2002
Yew Tree Gallery, Redruth, Cornwall 2002
Collyer & Bristow, London 2001/2002
Affordable Art Fair, London 2001
Art House, Richmond, Surrey 2001
Orleans House Open Exhibition, Twickenham, Surrey 2001
Diesel House Studios, London 2001
Affordable Art Fair, London 2000
Art House 2000, Richmond, Surrey 2000
Richmond Printmakers Annual Exhibition, Surrey 2000
Yew Tree Gallery, (Let In The Light), Stroud, Gloucestershire 2000
Southall Open Exhibition, London 1999
The Young Unknowns Gallery, London 1988
The Mall Galleries, London 1985
The Royal Festival Hall, London 1984Awards
Achievements and Awards
Presentation of mono print to the Prime Minister of Bermuda for the Government’s private collection 2004
Presented an oil painting from the ‘Invertebrates’ collection to the Prime Minister of Bermuda and Minister of the Environment for the Bermuda Marine Institute and appeared on Bermuda National Television and in the National Press 2004
Established Diesel House Studios as the largest privately run arts studios/gallery in London 2001 to Present
Appeared in the first edition of the ‘Black Who’s Who’ 2000
Collaborated with the Ballet Rambert to produce ballet and contemporary dance interpretation of ‘Black Angels – White Devils’ collection 2001
Collaborated with the composer Colin Riley (ENO) to develop musical score inspired by my the paper sculpture collection for the show Black Angels – White Devils. 1999
Collaborated with the Isleworth Actors Company to produce artwork for Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ 1999
Established, stage managed and promoted 12 piece Latin orchestra ‘Sandunga’ who worked with Gloria Estefan, Tito Fuentes and Roberto Plat 1989 to 1992Publications
Publications, Articles&Press
Weston Mercury, feature on Artists unite to showcase their talent for the North Somerset Arts - 2011
Cornish Life, feature on the Bernard Leach retrospective at Porthminster Gallery - 2009
The Royal Gazette, Bermuda - 2004
Middlesex University Alumni Newsletter (feature) - 2004
New Nation Newspaper, feature on Bermuda Prime Minister visit to Diesel House Studios Show at Osterley Park and feature on ‘Black Angels – White Devils’ - 2004
The Green Magazine, feature on Diesel House Studios Summer show - 2003&`04
The Chronical Newspaper (feature) - 2003
Carribean Times (feature) - 2002
Ealing Gazette (feature) - 2002
Network Magazine (feature) - 2000
Black Who’s Who, appeared in the first edition of the British Black Who’s Who - 2000
What’s On In London (feature) - 2000
The Informer (feature on Black History Month) - 1999
The Guardian (feature on Black Angels – White Devils) - 1998
Appearance on GLR with Andrea Oliver - 1998,Publications, Articles&Press
Weston Mercury, feature on Artists unite to showcase their talent for the North Somerset Arts - 2011
Cornish Life, feature on the Bernard Leach retrospective at Porthminster Gallery - 2009
The Royal Gazette, Bermuda - 2004
Middlesex University Alumni Newsletter (feature) - 2004
New Nation Newspaper, feature on Bermuda Prime Minister visit to Diesel House Studios Show at Osterley Park and feature on ‘Black Angels – White Devils’ - 2004
The Green Magazine, feature on Diesel House Studios Summer show - 2003&`04
The Chronical Newspaper (feature) - 2003
Carribean Times (feature) - 2002
Ealing Gazette (feature) - 2002
Network Magazine (feature) - 2000
Black Who’s Who, appeared in the first edition of the British Black Who’s Who - 2000
What’s On In London (feature) - 2000
The Informer (feature on Black History Month) - 1999
The Guardian (feature on Black Angels – White Devils) - 1998
Appearance on GLR with Andrea Oliver - 1998
Elizabeth Rollins-Scott (b 1962) studied at Isleworth School of Art and Design and gained a BA (Hons) from Middlesex University (Hornsey). After leaving college, Elizabeth quickly established herself as a successful professional artist based in London after leaving college and later decided to work in the fashion industry forecasting colour trends for 10 years between 1987 and 1997 before re-establishing a professional arts practice from her London Studios in 1998 and more recently has also established studios in Somerset where there are close links with a bronze foundry.
Over the course of the last fifteen years Elizabeth has developed and nurtured a body of contemporary modern art that has been inspired by antiquity, history, esoterica and the spiritual and explored from a multi-disciplinary viewpoint which includes painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics. Eizabeth`s works appear is private collections in the UK, Canada, Switzerland and America as well as featuring in public collections as including The Bermudian Government and the Afro Caribbean Society.
My greatest influences are Hieronymus Bosch, Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Boticelli, Turner, Picasso and Louise Bourgois
Private Collection of the Prime Minister of Bermuda
