Lot 47 - Selena Scott - Pure
Oil on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Moriah Ogunbiyi
About
Selena Scott is a portrait artist who aims to redefine the portrayal of Black people using oil painting, a medium traditionally reserved to perpetuate western ideals. Extending beyond oil portraiture, Selena uses film, textiles and animation to navigate Black identity informed by spoken history and archival research. Her Caribbean heritage is what drives her creative process, using loaded imagery and colour to construct narrative. Exploring themes such as afro-pessimism and prejudice, she references their direct connection to colonisation, utilising personal stories to shed light on the present ramifications of colonial history.
Education
2019-2022
BFA in Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
2025,
The Slipperiness of Empathy: Navigating through seas of (in)visibility and erasure, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, UK
2024,
What I Thought I Knew, Bernie Grant Arts Centre, London, UK
2024,
Life Within Landscapes, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK
2024,
Reclaiming Narratives, Cambridge Artworks, Cambridge, UK
2024,
Art on a Postcard International Women’s Day, The Bomb Factory, London, UK
2023,
It’s the Debt That You Owe, Peckham Levels, London, UK
2023,
Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
2023,
Sennen Summer Fayre, Faraway House, Cornwall, UK
2023,
Sankofa, Cambridge Artworks, Cambridge, UK
2023,
Art On A Postcard X War Child, Soho Revue, London, UK
2022,
Blackness, Cambridge Artworks, Cambridge, UK
2022,
Live in Colour: Black History Month, 1B Gallery and Genesis Cinema, London, UK
2022,
Slade Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2022,
Era, Crypt Gallery, London, UK
2022,
Meraki, Black Shades Enterprise, London, UK
2022,
#ThisisBlack TikTok's Black History Month, Truman Brewery, London, UK
Awards
2022,
Dolby Travel Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art
Public Collections
Robinson College, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK)
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