Frances Scott

Frances Scott (b. 1981, Barrow-in-Furness) is a London-based artist working with the moving image. Her work considers the narratives and histories at the periphery of cinematic production and its apparatus, to produce films composed of their metonymic fragments. Her projects are often made in exchange with other specialists, groups and publics, and developed through research using online and physical archives. She associates and composites diverse materials, analogue and digital film media, to create intricate scenarios that are both scripted and improvised.

Her film work, informed by this collaborative and research-led process, takes multiple forms, through exhibitions to installations, screenings, events, broadcasts and publications, including presentations at TACO!, London; Curzon Soho, London; BFI, London; Curtocircuíto – International Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; Matt’s Gallery, London; Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester; 38th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival; 67. / 68. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen; transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt and CTM, Berlin; ‘Unsung Stories: Women at Columbia Computer Music Center’, CMC, Columbia University, New York; 57th New York Film Festival; Close Up Film Centre, London; Het Bos, Antwerp; The Bower, London; Tate St Ives, Cornwall; Annely Juda Fine Art & The Russian Club, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Yorkshire Sculpture Park & Art Licks; South West Film & Television Archive, Plymouth; and Focal Point Gallery, Southend.

Frances Scott was recipient of the Stuart Croft Foundation Moving Image Award (2017). Her recent work ‘Wendy’ (2023), was made in collaboration with filmmaker and sound designer Chu-Li Shewring, as a film response to the work of composer, electronic music innovator and polymath, Wendy Carlos.

Read Emily La Barge’s LUX New Artist Focus commissioned text on Frances Scott’s moving image practice here.