Scot Sinclair

Brief Biography

Scot Sinclair graduated from Grays School of Art in 2001 and went on to obtain a Masters Degree in Fine Art from Southern Illinois University. He has been teaching in the USA for the past five years and is the first non Scottish resident to achieve the prize shortlist. He has had four solo exhibitions in the USA and a number of other exhibitions both there and in Scotland. He received a commission from BP in 1999 during his time studying in Aberdeen.

He says: the aim of my work is to use the paint’s sensous properties of three dimensional liquid pigment not only to question the viewers perception of deciphering what emerges and disappears on the picture plane, but also to experience the flowing texture of the painting’s surface. I make the viewer approach my paintings in a traditional way; offering them an illusion of a three-dimensional space yet, at the same time, negating the very illusion initially promised.