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Alison Scott is an artist, writer and art-worker based in Angus.

Often working with other artists on projects, her work is research-led, driven by film, performance and writing practices, and forefronts speculative approaches to knowledge production. Recent projects—drawing on encounters with weather, oil, land, and the idea of the commons—engage with aspects of environmental politics on an everyday, situated level.

Alison makes lens based work predominantly in collaboration with Rachel McBrinn, develops expanded writing projects with Rosie Roberts as again+again, often works in relation to energy matters with Fertile Ground (Rachel Grant), and has been a long term participant of the feminist-DIY-radio-collective open-weather.

She is currently working toward a practice-based PhD focussed on art, forestry and the commons at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen. Recently she has worked with organisations like Travelling Gallery, St Andrews Botanic Garden, Cove Park, Collective, Hospitalfield, LUX Scotland.

Alison studied Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices at Duncan Jordanstone College of Art and Design (2014) and MLitt Art Writing at Glasgow School of Art (2019). She works as a freelance art worker in various capacities and has been a Board member at Generator Projects since 2023.

Education

PhD Researcher, Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. 2024-current

Mlitt Art Writing, Glasgow School of Art 2018-2019

BA(hons) Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Practice, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, 2014

Exhibitions

Solo
'ditto, ditto, ditto', Collective, July-Sept 2021, Edinburgh

'Routine Prophecies' Glasgow Project Room, Nov 2018

'Geoprophesy', IMAG, Inverness, April - June 2017

'Sky Green and Blue', WASPS, Meadow MIll, Dundee, March 2017

Group

‘Where we meet land: environment and ecology in artists’ moving image’, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, 7-22 March 2026

After Glass, with Rachel McBrinn, Travelling Gallery, 2025

‘CRUDE’, Aberdeen, August 2021 (Ashanti Harris, Alison Scott and Shane Strachan curated by Rachel Grant/ Fertile Ground)

'Generalised Arrival', Soft Spot Online, Manchester, 9-16 April 2020 (Curated by Edward Gwyn Jones)

'The Lip of The Cup', MLitt Art Writing Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art, August 2019

'Burning Questions' Gray's School of Art, RGU, Aberdeen, August 2018 (Curated by Rachel Grant)

'SCAN PDF Exhibition', HOLD, February 2018
'The House That Heals The Soul', The Tetley, Leeds, February 2018

‘Decision Time’, Centrespace VRC, DCA, Dundee, September 2014 (curated by Zoe Irvine and Pernilla Spence)

Events and Performances

Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations at Fruitmarket, ‘Where we meet land: environment and ecology in artists’ moving image’,7-22 March 2026

‘Assumptions in Common Matters’ with Rosie Roberts as again&again, MOTE 102, Edinburgh, Feb 2026.

‘That’s what the bucket is for’, Events Research Programme, with Rosie Roberts and Becky Sik, Jan 2026

again&again, AFK, SPAM zine and press, The Doublet, Dec 2025.

Conference paper presentation, ‘Energy-in-motion’, V&A Dundee, June 2025

Screening of ‘After Glass’, Market Gallery, May 2025

‘Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations’(2022), with Rachel McBrinn, screening and in conversation with Anne Daffertshofer, at St Andrews Botanic Gardens, Sept 2024

‘That’s what the bucket is for’, airing on Dundee Radio Club, with Rosie Roberts and Becky Sik, Feb 2025

‘After Glass’, with Rachel McBrinn, Artists in residence work-in-progress Sharing Event at St Andrews Botanic Gardens, June 2024

Invited speaker at Scottish Contemporary Art Network Summit, Birnam Arts, May 2024

‘Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations’(2022)+ ‘A Tree is Planted’ archival film, Screening programme and Q&A programmed with Naoko Mabon and Phoenix Cinema, Oban, September 2023

‘That’s what the bucket is for’, Commission for Radiophrenia, Glasgow, with Rosie Roberts and Becky Sik, July 2023

Radio Show 'Atmospheres of Collaboration' with Rosie Roberts as again&again, for No Bounds Radio, 26 March 2023

Presentation with Rachel McBrinn for 'Art Unlocks Climate Action', Scottish Contemporary Art Network at SCVO conference 'The Gathering', June 2022

Screening of 'Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations', Argyll Climate Beacon Climate Cafe, Cove Park, June 2022

Video performance (online), at 'Climate Matters' symposium at Goethe Institut Stockholm, for 'Weather Glass or Crystal Ball' project with Geothe Insitut Glasgow, Stockholm and Copenhagen, Sept 2021

Video performance 'Rain, or such-and-such impressions', CCA, as part of Glasgow Film Festival X MAP Magazine, March 2020 (organised by Rosie Roberts)

Performance lecture 'Reading Winds', Collective, February 2020

'The Lip of The Cup' Mlitt Art Writing Degree Performances, CCA, Glasgow, August 2019

'Where, then, and to what', Glasgow Women's Library, April 2019

'Soft Shell', The Poetry Club, Glasgow, Oct 2018 and March 2019

Publication Launch 'Scratching the Surface' with Fiona Jardine, The House That Heals The Soul, CCA Glasgow, Aug 30 2017

'Hands of Healing / Stinging Vital Sparks', Garden Finale, Edinburgh Art Festival, Johnston Terrace Wildlife Garden, Edinburgh, Aug 27 2017

’Xanthippe Revised’ Performative talk, Roseangle Arts Cafe, Dundee, August 2016

‘(((echo)))’, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, June 2016

’Water Thief’ Performance and Installation (collaboration with Alice Tarbuck), Rewriting Histories: True North Conference, Timespan, Helmsdale, March 2016

Workshops

Insurgent Meteorologies, with Soph Dyer. Part of Earth Station Arbroath, Architecture Fringe’s Summer Assembly, July 2026

UPSTART: How to Write About What Matters, V&A Dundee’s Young People’s Collective, with Rosie Roberts, October 2025

Weather Writing Workshop/ Collaboration with open-weather for Hospitalfield Summer Festival, August 2025

Scratch That!: Editing in contemporary art practices: collaboration, attention and organisation Workshop for ECA 1st year ‘Art in Context’, March 2025

‘The Archive and The Found’, workshop for MLitt Art Writing at NLS Moving Image Archive, Kelvinhall, Feb 2025

Workshop for Creative Approaches to the Energy Crisis, Aberdeen University, June 2024

‘No Map Resembles the World’, workshop with Aaron McCarthy for ‘Mapping Grains’ Study Day at Hospitalfield, April 2024

‘Feeling Sunny’, Hospitalfield Study Day: ‘How to have a good time?’, May 2023

‘Splicer’, LUX Scotland Aberdeen Writing Workshops, 2 sessions, January 2023

Workshop leader, ‘(self)editing’ workshop, Bloomberg New Contemporaries Writing Retreat, November 2022

Lead artist, 'Common or Garden', participatory project for people with long term health conditions with Tayside Healthcare Arts Trust and Hospitalfield, Summer 2022.

Sessions for Kirrie Connections Dementia Support Group at Hospitalfield Fernery, May-June 2022

'Information wanted/ information granted' with Rosie Roberts for In Session FKA Gradjob, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop,2022

'you are the minute, the season, the hour', reading and watching workshop, Collective, Edinburgh, Jan 2020

'Scratching the Surface' with Fiona Jardine, The House That Heals The Soul, CCA Glasgow Aug 6 2017

'Stratify Yourself' at Making Museums Symposium, Timespan, Helmsdale, March 2017

Residencies

Cove Park Winter Residency, with Rachel McBrinn, funded by Creative Scotland Open Fund for Individuals

Funded place on Writing in Place residency, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Orkney, September 2023

Climate Beacon film commission and residency, with Rachel McBrinn, Cove Park and ACT Argyll, March 2022

Interdisciplinary Residency, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Aug 2021

Cove Park Funded Summer Residency, May 2021

RSPB Forsinard Flows, 10-15 April 2019

The Bothy Project Residency, Sw eeney's Bothy, Eigg 19-26 Nov 2017 (funded by DVAA)

Garden Residency, Edinburgh Art Festival, Johnston Terrace Wildlife Garden, Edinburgh, 7-13 Aug 2017

Graduate Fellowship 2017 at Timespan, Helmsdale in partnership with IMAG, Inverness, Jan - April 2017

Refresh Residency, Common Ground Projects, Glasgow, Sept 2016

Graduate Residency, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Oct 2014

Awards

SGSAH EARTH Scholars Cohort Development Programme, 2025

Creative Scotland Open Fund for Individuals 2024

Stephen Palmer Travel Bursary Award, Engage and Creative Scotland, with Rachel McBrinn 2023

Stephen Palmer Travel Bursary Award, Engage and Creative Scotland, 2022

Scottish Contemporary Art Network (SCAN) Curatorial Studio Seed Funding - For a trip to the RCA Writing/ Performance conference, with Rosie Roberts, Jan 2020

Hope Scott Trust Award 2018

Bursary to attend LUX Scotland SUPERLUX Summer School, with Hannah Rickards, at Hospitalfield, Arbroath August 2018

Dundee Visual Artists Award and Mentoring Scheme, supported by Fiona Jardine, Dundee Leisure and Culture, Creative Scotland, 2016-2017

Curatorial and Professional

Board Member (Secretary) Generator Projects, Dundee, March 2023 - current

Access Support, Rosie Roberts, Market Gallery Residency, 2026

Mentor, Fi Bailey, funded by VACMA, 2024-25

Access Support, assistance in Creative Scotland Open Fund for Individuals Application, for artist Jeni Reid, 2024 (successful)

Communications Officer (Gallery), Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2023-24 (Mat cover)

Events & Marketing Officer, DJCAD, University of Dundee, 2023 (Temporary)

Curatorial Project Assistant (Temporary), Cooper Gallery DJCAD, 2017-2023

Volunteer & Engagement Programme Manager (Temporary), Hospitalfield, Arbroath, 2023 (Mat Leave cover)

Project and Editorial Support, for 'Are you going my way?', Rachel McBrinn, research project with Rhubaba Gallery, Edinburgh, 2021-2022

Research Assistant and Production Support for 'A Matter of Precedents', Annette Krauss, Constellations Programme, Collective, Edinburgh, 2021-2022

Reviews Co-Editor, with Rosie Roberts, MAP Magazine, Jan - Dec 2020

Associate Producer, Satellites Programme, Collective, Edinburgh 2019/2020

Committee Member, GENERATORprojects, Dundee, 2014-2016

Team Leader, Scotland+Venice and Hospitalfield, 2015

Festival Assistant, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh, 2011-2014

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