Profile
Studio Baxter is the creative workshop of Scott Baxter, an experimental silkscreen and lithographic printmaker based in Edinburgh. His practice examines evolving LGBT+ identities and imagery where digital technologies have become part of everyday identity creation and archiving. His work also responds to historical queer invisibility by subverting our understandings of common social allegories to generate new contexts for queer agency to exist across open-ended visual narratives. Baxter’s approach often begins as photographic studies, which are digitally manipulated for screen prints or photo-plate lithographs. Finalising the work as ‘printmaking’ is critical to his practice as it allows the discovery of a richer, seductive final image that exploits halftones, ink translucencies and paper textures, which cannot be achieved from photography alone. Baxter’s current work focuses on exploring experimental printmaking through portraiture by queering conventional two-dimensional print methods to discover three-dimensional forms of image construction.
Baxter studied Intermedia Art at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 2015. He has received several awards and scholarships and has been selected for exhibition across the UK including the International Original Print Exhibition 2023, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London; Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2023, London; ARCUS Pride Exhibition 2021, Clifford Chance, London; RSA: New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2016; and New Scottish Artists at DRAF / Fleming Collection, London 2016. His work is held in the public collection of Aberdeen Galleries and Museums, Scotland and private collections in the UK, Sweden, Germany, and the USA. His work also features in UN//TITLED, An anthology of queer contemporary art 2016-2020, John Hopper Publishing.
Portrait photograph by Jordan McQuid of Edinburgh Printmakers.
