Robyn Scott

I studied studio art at the University of California, Irvine (BA) and the Winchester School of Art in the UK (MA). I currently serve as the Artist Coordinator for Arts Access in Raleigh, hosting a monthly meeting for artists who self identify as having a disability. I live and practice art in Durham, NC. In the past, I worked as a middle school art teacher.

My work focuses on the lived experience of having invisible illness and how that informs interactions between me and my community. Invisible illness and disability lead to a number of misunderstandings and missed connections in an environment that is built for healthy people. Navigating this world is an adventure, sometimes traveling through a maze, an upside down world, or one with no gravity at all. My work contains hidden images, reflections, and light where shadows should be. The negative and positive spaces become one and the same throughout the process of creating these pieces to play on the lack of depth of field in real life. The viewer may see multiple elements of the drawings eventually noticing that what was hidden is now in plain sight.