Sue Scott
Sue Scott is a Leeds based multi-disciplinary artist, currently working with photography, poetry, film, sculpture, print and textiles exploring connection and interplay of elemental and sensory experience with ethereal responses around domestic themes, physicality and space.
As a response to the ‘From My Bed’ exhibition, she brings together themes from her own lived experience of enduring both physical conditions and trauma, as well as being a Carer around severe mental health illness, injury and vascular dementia, all which impact my family and personal relationships, resulting in isolation, financial burden, and need of support network over recent years. Scott created ‘Rock #1’ Sculpture which was featured in the ‘Radical Connectedness’ exhibition, White Column LBU in April 2025 and EY/Overbury Competition prize winner ‘Tower Connections’ Sculpture May 2024, currently being displayed in Ernst Young new Offices, Leeds.
My Bed, 2026
“The place where my thoughts intensify in restless cycles, sometimes stuck in despair, where I hear the creeping silence of darkness in the early hours, where I feel the foreboding of another day’s effort looming. Enduring waves of twisting pain, thoughts of letters weave through to darn my anxious brain. I share my bed with pain, struggle, hope, fear, loneliness, love and laughter; at the end of the day and beginning of new, it is the one place I feel safe. A place where I view the world through the illusions and optimistic dreams. With lived experience enduring physical conditions, trauma, and as a Carer around severe mental health illness, injury and vascular dementia, all which impact my family and personal relationships, resulting in financial burden, lacking support and loneliness over recent years.”
Image Description:
A ‘From My Bed’ exhibition extra for the website. A photographic artwork which is black and white depicting an empty unmade bed. A metal bed frame with vertical and horizontal bars and orb shaped bed knobs is visible against a sunlit wall where illuminated rectangular reflections of blind slats are cast onto the wall, together with dark shadows of the bedhead’s bars and half drawn curtains. On the bed is a creased cotton bed sheet, two velvet textured pillows, and a bulky velvet duvet, which has been thrown to one side, depicting a just-slept-in appearance of an unmade bed.
Audio Description:
Bed Case
‘Bed Case’ is not so heavy, it is not the baggage of my daily struggles, not a ‘head case’ and does not hold me back. In it I carry sentimental reminders of people I love and respect, who taught me about resilience, kindness to always build a safe space slightly concealed from the outside, a safe space not to hide, but to rest, process, heal and recover.
With lived experience enduring physical conditions, trauma, and as a Carer around severe mental health illness, injury and vascular dementia, which all impact my family and personal relationships, resulting in financial burden, lack of support and loneliness over recent years. I bring these themes together in response to ‘From My Bed’ with the sculptural piece ‘Bed Case’.
Image Description:
Photograph of ‘Bed Case’ a sculpture against a grey floor and white walls. ‘Bed Case’ is a mixed-media rectangular sculpture mounted on a base resembling a carry case on castors. Constructed from Perspex, wood, MDF, plastic, and metal, with the base painted in black. The Perspex sides and top are partially transparent with diagonal and straight textured lines printed in opaque white to depict window blinds, walls, and the ceiling of a bedroom. The rectangle sculpture has a wooden carrying handle in the centre at the top with two black hinges. Halfway up inside the Perspex box is a printed black organza fabric, partially obscuring the objects, depicting veiled curtains. The selection of objects can be seen from outside of the lower half of the case, which for example include a print of a headboard and pillows, a selection of writing, a glass Whitby duck ornament, a memorial seed planting packet, small white weekly Dossett pillbox, empty pill foil sheets.
Audio Description:
Poetry
‘Bed Case’by Sue Scott
My ‘Bed Case’ Is not so heavy,
it is not the baggage
of my daily struggles,
not a ‘head case’,
does not hold me back.
I carry sentimental reminders,
of people,
of love and respect.
Reminders of resilience,
kindness,
to build a safe space,
slightly concealed
from the outside,
a safe space,
not to hide,
but to rest,
process,
heal,
recover.
My ‘Bed Case’ Is not so heavy,
it is not the baggage
of my daily struggles,
not a ‘head case’,
does not hold me back.
I carry sentimental reminders,
of people,
of love and respect.
Reminders of resilience,
kindness,
to build a safe space,
slightly concealed
from the outside,
a safe space,
not to hide,
but to rest,
process,
heal,
recover.
External Links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suescott.art/