We’re delighted to welcome Laura Jane Scott back to the gallery for her first solo exhibition, Instinctive Order.
Scott’s work is rooted in an exploration of form and colour; a desire for simplicity, order and balance. Her inspiration comes from open-ended toys, simple objects and observed lines and structures in architecture.
Setting some initial boundaries like a small palette of colours or a limited set of shapes, she describes her practice as part-process and part-intuition. An exploration of possibilities within limitations. Centred on play and working physically with component parts, she arranges and rearranges, experimenting and adjusting along the way. The resulting work is a hybrid of painting and sculpture, a refined visual vocabulary, composed, assembled and presented to the viewer as complete.
The sleek, matt surfaces that characterise Laura’s work are achieved through a delicate process where pigment becomes inseparable from structure. When displayed, the fields of saturated clean-edged colour invite a deep, sustained and quiet attention.
Recent works have introduced a compelling new tension: the interplay between presence and absence. By carving out recesses and voids within solid forms, Scott imbues her pieces with a physical and emotional complexity. These spaces invite shadows to enter the conversation, creating depth within the clarity of geometric lines. They evoke themes of privacy, containment, a stepping back. Expressing a push and pull between the desire to be seen and the instinct to retreat - an idea that resonates with her as someone who values and protects her personal space.
At the heart of Scott’s practice is a space of quiet focus where instinct overrides external validation. She describes her studio as a place where comparison and doubt fall away, replaced by the calm certainty of following her own eye. In that space, she is fully herself - without compromise, without explanation. This is not just an artistic philosophy, but a declaration: that the purest work emerges not from chasing approval, but from listening inward and following that thread wherever it leads.
