Mary Scott b. 1957

  • Artist (Painter)
Mary Scott, Tasmanian-based artist specializing in painting and drawing, is the Senior Lecturer and Head of Drawing at the Tasmanian School of Art.
Tags: Drawing
Courtesy of: Peter Whyte
creator of
The Book of Measure
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Drawings

Composed of 185 hand-drawn images which are set out in the approximate order of a book, complete with cover, frontispiece, chapters, images and colophon, the project explores the idea of the construction of ‘knowledge’ as being an irrational process based upon the accumulation and taxonomic ordering of data, guided by curiosity rather than rationality.

 
creator of
White House, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue Rooms
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drawing on paper

Four panels each 70 × 100cm graphite, colour pencil on paper