We are honoured to present a small selection of Pauline Scott-Garrett’s recent works on paper at Drawing Projects UK. The special display with be on show in the public spaces of Drawing Projects UK for the next few weeks, and can be seen daily when Arthaus Coffee is open - Monday to Friday, 8am-4pm and Saturday-Sunday, 10am-3pm.

Using large-scale print, moving image and text to examine loss, displacement and exile, and the fragility of the human body, her hybrid, hand-built, large-scale atmospheric installation pieces and more intimate works emerge through printmaking processes and non-standard transparent and semi-opaque materials rather than traditional print practices. Her practice sits at an intersection between print, drawing and collage, and sought to reframe printmaking as a site of interdisciplinarity, a testing ground for ‘The important work...done at the surfaces between adjacent disciplines’ (Carter, 1998).

Pauline Scott-Garrett initially studied Fine Art at Sheffield Polytechnic, followed by a scholarship at Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna and MA Painting at Chelsea College of Art. A founder trustee of Sheffield’s creative industries project, Yorkshire Artspace, her work is included in Sheffield’s visual arts collection. A postgraduate degree in Cultural Management at City University London led to roles such as the development of the National Lottery-funded Milton Keynes Theatre & Gallery and Director of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. Pauline returned to full-time creative practice a decade ago, and took on a studio at Drawing Projects UK in 2022, in part to house the beloved Rochat Press, shared with her good friend and fellow artist Aliceson Carter, which became so critical to the development of her most recent work.

A mainstay of the Drawing Projects UK community, Pauline Scott-Garrett sadly passed away in April, and we will all miss her enormously. We hope you will enjoy seeing her compelling work in which her creativity, passions, and commitment to social justice live on. RIP Pauline Scott-Garrett (1955-2025).