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Mary Scott
Canadian, born 1948
Mary Scott is a teacher, gallery director, and artist working with painting, fibre arts, new media, and computer programming. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with the University of Calgary in 1978 and a Master of Fine Arts with Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1980. Scott has been an instructor and program coordinator at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Banff Centre, and the Alberta College of Art and Design. Scott was also a founder of the dL Gallery, Stride Gallery, and One White Wall Gallery, all located in Calgary. She has been exhibited and collected across Canada.
Her work focuses on language, feminist literature, feminist criticism, and psychoanalysis. Text and images are combined to address these ideas in works that suggest multiple meanings. Through the early 1980s Scott relied on a syringe rather than a paintbrush, building up layers of paint to create a raised surface at odds with traditional painting methods.
Her work focuses on language, feminist literature, feminist criticism, and psychoanalysis. Text and images are combined to address these ideas in works that suggest multiple meanings. Through the early 1980s Scott relied on a syringe rather than a paintbrush, building up layers of paint to create a raised surface at odds with traditional painting methods.