Dutch Aquarium
Erika Scott
5 — 7 June 2020
Erika Scott's visual language unfolds through a variety of media, often reassembling and modifying discarded household objects, furniture, and popular culture debris. She works towards building spaces that reflect what she values and finds important, and this usually requires her to re-establish and satisfy an ongoing set of aesthetic parameters. Within these parameters things teeter between ‘image and object, the organic and artificial, form and anti-form’. The term ‘Dutch Aquarium’ is a style of freshwater aquascaping developed in the 1930’s. The Dutch style distinctively arranges plants with a focus on plant diversity and combines vast arrays of leaf colour, plant size and texture into a single space. This title is sympathetic with Erika's sensory and collage-like approach to materials and it pushed the possibility of voyeristic or outsider perspectives, the gallery becoming both a viewfinder and eco-system of sorts.
Erika Scott completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art) with Honours at the Queensland University of Technology in 2010 and is one of the founding directors of the Artist Run Initiative ‘Accidentally Annie St Space’ and the Director of 'The Soylent Spot'.
Accompanying text by Christopher Cipollone.
Exhibition documentation: Charlie Hillhouse