Hugh Scott Douglas

Untitled, 2015

Long Lake Estates

Hugh Scott-Douglas is an emerging artist who was born in England in 1988, moved to Edmonton with his family as a young child, and later grew up in Ottawa.

Scott-Douglas creates abstract, pattern-rich panels and installations that he makes using a wide variety of techniques such as photography, laser cutting, and inkjet printing. He is best known for his cyanotype prints on textiles, which rely on an outmoded form of film development produced by the sun rather than artificial light. More recent works, printed using an ink jet process onto eighty-inch aluminum panels, continue his investigation of the limits of the generation and production of the photographic image.

Like the cyanotype works on canvas with which Scott-Douglas first came to prominence, these photographs unite image and object, material and process, source and surface in a reflexive and hermetic process.

Scott-Douglas says, “Repetition is a fantastic way to make a lot from a little.... to extract the maximum from the subject.... here the same content performs the same task again, and again, and again, and again, and again...”

Solo exhibits in

• Tokyo, Berlin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London and Milan

Work appears in

• Dallas Museum of Art

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

• Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI