Lotte Scott

Lotte Scott was born in London but grew up in Somerset. She studied at Goldsmiths and then at the Slade School of Fine Art. In 2020 she was the recipient of the Gilchrist Fisher Award for artists under 30 working with the theme of Landscape. 

Recent exhibitions include Lexis Over Land at the Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens Gallery, Liquid Land at Anglia Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, Fragile Nature at Groundwork Gallery, King’s Lynn, and a solo show, The Fields are Seas, at OUTPOST, Norwich. As part of SAW Festival in 2019 she exhibited A Long Hundred in a monastic fishery building near Glastonbury. 

In 2024 Scott was commissioned by the Mendip Hills National Landscape Team in partnership with Somerset Art Works, to create Ash Viewing. The project began with Scott making lime from Mendip stone, creating a limewash that was used to cover an entire ash tree felled due to ash dieback disease. The tree was installed in a stone barn, creating a poignant artwork highlighting issues of environmental change and degradation. Subsequently, Scott turned the tree into charcoal.

ASH BARROW FILM

Lotte Scott’s installation  “Ash Remains” is the latest stage of an unfolding project, “Ash Barrow”. Commissioned by Mendip Hills National Landscape in partnership with Somerset Art Works, “Ash Barrow” highlights the impact of ash dieback disease, framing ecological loss in the context of Mendip’s ancient history. Film by Tom Wade and Verity Elliot.  WATCH FURTHER BELOW