Lee Scott Hempson is a multimedia artist with a broad range of interests bouncing between poetry, painting, sculpture, animation and the poetry of film.

In essence, her work is a bricolage, and she plays with the spaces between art, writing and design. Her practices have come to encompass a variety of ways to portray her understanding (or lack thereof) of the absurdity of humanity and are a reaction to an array of social disillusions; some situated in humour and others a little more fist-to-the-gut like.

She is a full-time practising artist. Having recently left lecturing in the Arts at the Durban University of Technology, she was fortunate to have taught drawing and creative approaches to drawing for design in a variety of programs over the years, such as Graphic Design, Fashion & Textile Design. All these experiences have greatly influenced her creative practice.

In the 80’s when she received her artistic training, the paintings were grounded in social realism. She sought to tell of the social and political injustices of the time; the canvases were a voice through which to speak of the prejudices of the apartheid system. In the early 90’s, Scott Hempson reflected upon societal expectations of women’s roles, and how media and society had affected her perceptions of self. Post 2000’s her work has been influenced by design rhetoric but has stayed within a narrative social voice mode.

She admits she has lightened up over the years and her current practice as artist and social commentator is quirky, sometimes absurd and at times deeply revealing of both self and society.

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Actual colours may vary slightly from the images shown, due to lighting when photographed, and colour variations in monitors and on phone screens.