About Scott Breton
Scott Breton is a figurative fine artist from Brisbane, Australia.
After completing a science degree (BSc (Genetics) University of Queensland) and contemplating a career in biotechnology, Scott committed fully to pursuing art, continuing a classically leaning arts education and practise begun much earlier. In 2012 Scott won the highly contested A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship, Australia’s largest national prize for developing the careers of traditional representational artists. This allowed Scott to do further study with contemporary classical artists in the US and Europe, and has contributed to his view of the relevance of Renaissance thinking and aesthetics in the Arts in the 21st century.
Using a range of traditional drawing, painting and sculpting media as well as exploring digital counterparts to these, Scott sees plastic composition rather than any particular media as the core of the classical ethos. He is interested in how this sense of plasticity can be utilised by the contemporary artist. This endeavour seems to closely mirror a more general exploration of how the specifics of the contemporary human experience relate to and can be informed by insights about the human condition that have emerged across all of human history.
After winning the Lethbridge 10,000 Small Works prize in 2016, Scott began regular solo shows with Lethbridge Gallery.
To continue and expand his work in fine art education, Scott was a cofounder of The International Arts and Culture Group (TIAC Group) in 2016, and now spends his time between Brisbane, Australia and Florence, Italy, working on his compositions and TIAC's arts education projects.
www.tiac.group
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Selected Exhibitions and Prizes
2022 “Confessions” Solo show at Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane Article
2022 “Interconnected” Group exhibition curated by Beautiful Bizarre magazine, hosted by NERAM (New England Regional Art Museum) Details
2021 Nominated as a “Fellow” of Royal Queensland Art Society
2021 “Anthropomorphisms” Solo show at Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane View Collection
2021 Responses to Jack Lister’s “Still Life” choreography, part of Three by Australasian Dance Collective - displayed at QPAC (Queensland Performing Arts Complex, Southbank) View Collection
2020-2021 “Eros: your body as an excuse” Group show at MEAM, Barcelona (The European Museum of Modern Art) https://www.meam.es/en/exhibitions/99/eros-your-body-as-an-excuse.html
2021 “Art of Imagination” Competition, Royal Queensland Art Society (First prize for “Undiscovered”)
2020 “The Shape of the Sky” Solo Show, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane View collection
2019 Brisbane Portrait Prize (Finalist)
2019 “Timeless” Gallery IX Group Show
2018 World Wide Kitsch Painting Competition (First Prize for “The Sea Has Many Voices”) Read interview
2018 “Whispered Ocean Hymns” Solo Show, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane View Collection
2018 “Connection” 49th Brisbane Grammar School Art Show, Brisbane, Australia (Feature Artist with others)
2017 “Self Portrait” Florence, Italy (group show in conjunction with Odd Nerdrum)
2017 "Evolve" 48th Brisbane Grammar School Art Show, Brisbane, Australia (Feature Artist)
2017 "Paths to the Half Remembered" Solo show, Lethbridge Gallery View Collection
2017 "Murallas Molinos" Madrid, Spain (group show in conjunction with Antonio Lopez-Garcia)
2017 "Beyond Skills" Alcoy, Spain (group show in conjunction with Golucho)
2016 "Punto Critico" Florence, Italy (group show)
2016 "Beyond Skills: Golucho and Chinese Artists Exhibitions" Florence, Italy
2016 Queensland Figurative Competition (Highly Commended for "Orpheus")
2016 Lethbridge 10,000 (First Prize for "Inland Sea")
2016 Harold and Agnes Richardson Memorial Drawing Prize (First Prize for "An Echo of Space")
2015 Brisbane Grammar School Annual Art Show
2014 Finalist Queensland Figurative Competition
2014 Brisbane Grammar School Annual Art Show
2014 "Journeys West" Exhibition at Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
2014 Harold and Agnes Richardson Memorial Drawing Prize (Commended for "An Australian Mythology")
2013 Brisbane Grammar School Annual Art Show
2012 Winner of A.M.E. Bale Travelling Art Scholarship (Melbourne)
2012 "The Julian Ashton Connection" Royal Queensland Art Society, Brisbane
2012 Brisbane Grammar School Annual Art Show
2012 Harold and Agnes Richardson Memorial Drawing Prize Show, Royal Queensland Art Society
2012 Royal Queensland Art Society Annual Exhibition
2011 Brisbane Grammar School Annual Art Show
2011 Sculptors Queensland Annual Exhibition (Chalkos Fine Art Foundry Art Prize, and Peoples' Choice Prize)
2010-2011 "Evolving Traditions" Group Art Exhibition at Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Redcliffe
2010 Finalist in the A.M.E. Bale Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Melbourne
2010 Salisbury Studios Queensland Incorporated Inaugural Exhibition
2010 Finalist Redcliffe Art Society Golden Ox National Art Competition (highly commended)
2010 Finalist Brett Lethbridge 10000 Small Works competition
2008 Finalist in the Alice Bale Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibtion, Melbourne
2004 Exhibited paintings at the Maria Perides Gallery, Newfarm.
2003 Best Emerging Artist Emmanuel College Art Show
Teaching/ Residency
2020-22 Teaching classical life drawing at the Royal Queensland Art Society, Brisbane studios.
2010-16 Teacher at Atelier Art Classes, Salisbury
2015-18 Life Drawing and Painting workshop delivered to students of Clayfield College, Brisbane, entering Senior
2015 Life drawing and Figure Anatomy (simplified Ecorche) for students of ICACEA workshops, Florence
2012 Still life painting workshop at Queensland Art Gallery, for gallery members in conjunction with the "Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado" exhibition
2011 Workshop with year 8 and 9 students from Dakabin State High School during development of a mural at Queensland Rail's Dakabin train station
2010 Artist in Residence at Brisbane Grammar School
2009, 2010 Teacher at Brisbane Artists' Academe
2009 Artist in Residence at Sculptors Qld