Scott Donohue

Born 1982 Newcastle upon Tyne. Currently living in Newcastle after graduating with a first class BA/hons in fine art in 2004. He recently featured in DIGIT magazine under the title of 'New British Talent', after winning the NOISE festivals elements competition. Donohue states "My creative energy is fueled by a fascination with technological development, and its implications for the future. Technology can be used to empower individuals, and heighten creative freedom, but it can also be used for control and annihilation. It is the ambivalence and uncertainty of scientific progress that provides the catalyst for my work. I embrace the freedom of my imagination to celebrate and critique my experience of the world."

His creative process involves making large installation works, which he then photographs and recycles into paintings and 2D mixed media imagery. When creating installations he likes to think of them as "machines that refuse to be repressed by reasons comprehension."

Technology has been seized upon as a possible means to unite reason with imagination, and eradicate uncertainty. He hopes to mock our faith in technologies potential to create a coherent certain world. Donohue's work is not simply about naively labeling sc...

Fist class ba/hons fine art