Hugh Scott-Douglas BRITISH, b. 1988

Hugh Scott-Douglas is best known for his cyanotype prints on textiles, which rely on an outmoded form of film development produced by the sun rather than artificial light. Scott-Douglas first designs a patterned motif using computer-generated algorithms, then prints it onto film and exposes it to sunlight over a textile such as canvas; the chromatic variation of the resulting blue-toned images reflects the changing environments they were produced in. He repeats his motifs in different series and materials, including slideshows and laser-cut images. Scott-Douglas has drawn inspiration from cinema, in particular the stage sets and shifting sense of time and space in the 1920s German Expressionist film, _The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari_. “I acknowledge cinema as the most inflated form of spectacle, and often draw from filmic examples,” he has said, “not so much for pictorial content of a film, but for the mechanics of the picture.” Scott-Douglas's work achieved record high prices at auction in 2013. He is also founding director (now "creative consultant") for one of Toronto's hottest galleries Tomorrow.