Scott Young
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This artwork features a pair of scissors against a wooden backdrop. The composition is simple, with the scissors taking center stage and the wooden surface providing a warm, textured contrast. The artist has used a realistic, photographic style to depict the scissors in great detail, capturing the reflective metallic sheen and the sharp, precise edges of the blades. The scissors, a common household tool, are presented as the sole subject, inviting the viewer to consider the beauty and functionality of this everyday object. The artwork may suggest themes of utility, craftsmanship, and the importance of simple, everyday objects in our lives. ...
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Scott Young
AmericanScott Young excavates images, materials and motifs from a variety of sources, spanning from art history to design and fashion. His deceptive paintings sit comfortably between image and object, the domestic and the industrial, the decorative and the pragmatic. Borrowing techniques from 19th-century still-life painting, his works contain resonances of past image worlds while simultaneously creating new constellations, to propose a painterly vocabulary strongly informed by our (post-)digital condition. ...
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V.O Curations
LondonV.O Curations is an arts organisation dedicated to supporting emerging and underrepresented artists through an innovative and critically-engaged programme. Founded in 2019 by Zina Vieille and Nnamdi Obiekwe, V.O Curations believes that to curate is to approach all aspects of the programme - residencies, exhibitions, events and studio spaces - with care. V.O Curations spans two locations in Mayfair and Tower of London, and currently hosts over 250 artists and thinkers in affordable studios, responding to the changing ways in which they are working and the acute rent increases in the capital. In January 2021, V.O Curations opened its headquarters at 56 Conduit Street, which is the site for its residency and exhibition programme, alongside 70 artist studios. This location in Mayfair reinforces V.O’s commitment to connecting emerging artists to distinctive networks and resources. ...