IAN SCOTT

In 1975, Scott began his ‘Lattice’ series, a mode that would dominate his output in the late 1970s, and one which he would frequently return to over the course of his career. The rules of the ‘Lattice’ system were flexible, with many variations produced across Scott’s engagement with the motif, but the archetypal ‘Lattice’ painting sees diagonal bands of colour interlaced across a square canvas. Coloured bands, marking the boundaries of deep stretches of black, reach to and beyond the edge of the canvas, capturing Scott’s desire for a ‘feeling of balanced tension between the sense of movement and expansion of the diagonals and the self-contained nature of the image’ (Art New Zealand 13: Spring 1979).

Scott was frequently exhibited at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, including Abstract Attitudes (1976), The Grid (1983), and Local Revolutionaries: Art & Change 1965-1986 (2010). His work is held in the collections of Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington; Victoria University Art Collection, Wellington; the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and many other public and private collections in New Zealand.

Courtesy Lett Thomas