ANDREW PIERCE SCOTT

For this type of work, making appliqué still lifes I am using scrap fabric and offcuts. I enjoy that there is a range of colors, textures, weights, and this gives me the ability to see in these fabrics different objects- a green satin stands out as the potential skin on a fig or a flower’s stem, a dark speckled tweed may morph in my mind into the back of a trout.

These metamorphoses seem to be limitless. I also find it interesting that despite having a large collection of fabrics (which helps me from being overly precious about a particular material) once I run out of a certain cloth I’m not necessarily able to get the exact same material again, unlike buying specific colors of paint for example. I like how this forces me to reinterpret the same object with a different range of fabrics. 

“For inspiration I love the room with the small, mainly Dutch still lifes at the National Gallery. But I’m equally inspired just sitting at a nice dinner, seeing the food and objects around the table, maybe noticing the way the light passing through a vase or glass distorts the objects behind it.”

Mainly I’m daydreaming about nice meals out with friends, and trying to take note of the beauty inherent in these mundane/quotidian moments. 

Andrew is originally from the east coast of the U.S. and moved to London in 2018 to get an MA from the Royal College of Art. For the last few years he’s been working at Antony Gormley’s studio as a maker.