60 years of art – Frome resident’s exhibition of a lifetime

FROME resident Cameron Scott was the winner of the Trowbridge Town Hall Art Centre Open Art Exhibition earlier this year and his prize is a solo show in the Town Hall Gallery which will take place from 9th September to 14th October. 

He will show woven lengths he produced at college through to lime wood relief carving and a series of seven collages about Trowbridge and its history – it promises to be a very varied show. 

‘Cameron Scott – 60 years of art’ is a free exhibition available to the public from the 9th September to 14th October at the Town Hall Gallery in Trowbridge (open Monday to Saturday 10am to 4pm). 

Cameron said, “The common thread to all my work is that the pieces are stories around my life. The places I have lived – Kintore, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (my home village), my time in Italy, my recent move to South West England; memories of my childhood, looking out my bedroom window in a small Scottish village hoping for a different life, being a student in the ‘60s in Aberdeen, working in fashion houses in Italy; also the people from my life, my parents, my family, and artists who have influenced me. All these jumbled thoughts become a narrative, slightly surreal picture.” 

As the work tells stories under each piece there will be a paragraph telling at least part of the story of the picture leaving the viewer to work out the rest of the story. 

Cameron taught for 25 years in various art schools from Falmouth to Salford and finished as head of school of art in Burnley. All this time he was producing artwork from embroidery, collage, paper pulp and relief wood carving with the common thread to all his work being that the pieces are stories around his life.  

Cameron has exhibited widely from the Royal Cambrian Academy, Fresh Air, Quenington, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, Abbey House Gardens, Malmesbury, Royal West of England Academy, Saatchi Gallery, Electric Picture House, Congleton amongst many others. He also recently was awarded the John Doubleday Award at the Oxford International Art Contest 2022.