About

Issey Scott is an art writer, and occasional curator, based in London, with interests in the intersection of arts and culture and mental health. Her writing has appeared in publications including Candid Magazine, The Big Issue, RIBA, Floorr Magazine and Cluster Journal. Issey has curated projects at South London Gallery, Anise Gallery, Museum of the Home and arebyte, and has produced exhibition texts for Castor Gallery and Wimbledon Space. She recently completed the MA Contemporary Art Theory programme at Goldsmiths, University of London, with a dissertation entitled, Repudiating the Visual Language of Happiness: Challenging the Social and Aesthetic Parameters of 'Happiness' Under Ableist Conditions.

Her writing can be found below, spanning arts and culture:

Let's Make Lots of Monet

Trebuchet Magazine [2021-]

The power of (in)visible community - on the '(In)visible City' exhibition in Somers Town, Camden.

Hunter and Her [2021]
Heartfelt care for each other will unlock joy

Cluster Journal [2020]

Is sustainable design an 'expansion of nature'?

Focus on lighting design

Making craft objects speak

Craft around the world

Focus on functional design

Focus on ceramics

Essay commissioned to accompany group exhibition 'Chrysalis' at Wimbledon Space [2020]