Through painting, photography, sculpture and video, Hugh Scott-Douglas investigates socio-economic structures, technology and value. Using a wide array of techniques, including inkjet printing, laser cutting, cyanotypes, and satellite mapping software, the artist explores the tension between digital and analogue modes of creation and the contemporary potential of photography as a medium. Scott-Douglas’ work, while predominantly visually abstract, concerns questions of consumerism and migration, trade routes and cultures of transaction. In his series ‘Trade Winds’ (2016), he utilised satellite software to track shipping routes across the globe; producing abstract paintings that are in fact visually presented empirical data. Working with outmoded, traditional and cutting-edge techniques of image-making, Scott-Douglas reinvents the ontology of painting and photography amidst the globalised, consumerist condition.

Written by Goldsmiths CCA

Croy Nielsen

New York City

Basel

Art Basel

Toronto

Art Toronto

London

Simon Lee Gallery

Paris

Galerie Max Hetzler

Casey Kaplan

Bortolami

Hong Kong

Berlin

Turin

Luce Gallery

San Francisco

Jessica Silverman

Tokyo

Blum & Poe

Los Angeles

Kaikai Kiki Gallery

Columbus

Columbus Museum of Art

Vancouver

Rennie Museum

Chicago

Mca Chicago

North Adams

Mass Moca

East Lansing

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum At Michigan State University

Hugh Scott-Douglas

Chopped Bills

Chopped Bill

Chopped Bill and Torn Cheque