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Scottee

Scottee is an artist and writer from Kentish Town, North London.

His early work has often been acknowledged as controversial, throwing cake at Rihanna as part of an X Factor performance and spitting milkshake over Nick Grimshaw.[1] On one occasion the police arrived at one performance of 'Mess' to investigate a suspected breach of public indecency laws. The police found no evidence of illegal activity.[2]

More recently, Scottee has turned to creating activist artworks and projects with communities across the UK and Ireland. These have included working with his grandfather to tackle ageism,[3] public artwork in Southend addressing queer trauma,[4] Hamburger Queen - a talent show for fat people exploring fat activism,[5] establishing Peterborough Pride,[6] participant led dance show Fat Blokes[7] and stage show Class[8] looking at poverty and class system in the UK

Scottee has written on subjects for newspapers such as The Guardian, i-D Magazine and Global Citizen[9] In a piece in The Guardian expressing concerns about pay and the problems of working in the arts industry he characterises it as; "The arts are essentially a namby-pamby life of stealing Wi-Fi, cheap coffee, waiting tables and overpriced weekend workshops in improvisation that leaves you, at times, financially and mentally unstable."[10]

He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends after first appearing on the programme on 18 December 2012.,[11] he has also written columns and presented for Front Row and Cultural Front Line. In 2020 Scottee became the host of After The Tone podcast,[12] first published in August that year.

From 2013 - 2016 Scottee was Associate Artist at Roundhouse, London.[13] In 2017 Scottee became Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, University of London[14] and 2018 he became an Associate Artist at HOME, Manchester.

Scottee is the Artistic Director of Scottee & Friends Ltd. which he established in 2017 with Executive Producer Molly Nicholson.

Radio edit

  • Loose Ends[15] (2012 - present)
  • Front Row, Punk[16] (2016)
  • Short Cuts, Noel (2019)
  • Flip, Bog Standard[17] (2019)
  • Short Cuts, Remix[18] (2020)
  • Front Row, Risk List (2020)

Early life edit

Scottee was born on Queens Crescent, Kentish Town West Estate. He was expelled from school aged 14[19] after which he never returned to education. He has no formal training or qualifications.

References edit

  1. ^ "Homepage". Scottee. Archived from the original on January 31, 2014. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
  2. ^ "Scottee interview - Cabaret - Time Out london". Timeout.com. 2010-01-18. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  3. ^ "Vice - Meet 'The Real Liam Gallagher', the 79-Year-Old Irish Artist Tackling Ageism in the Art World". vice.com. 2014-05-26. Retrieved 2014-05-26.
  4. ^ "Huck - What happens when you ask your community if it's homophobic". huckmagazine.com. 2017-03-03. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  5. ^ "The Guardian - The Big Beauty Contest". theguardian.com. 2012-03-12. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
  6. ^ "PETERBOROUGH PRIDE 2018". Metal. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  7. ^ "Fat Guys Talk About Living Life as Fat Guys". www.vice.com. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  8. ^ "Scottee: Class review – check your privilege, row A". the Guardian. 2019-08-08. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  9. ^ "scottee global citizen - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  10. ^ "UK arts: reasons not to get involved | Culture professionals network | Guardian Professional". Theguardian.com. 2014-02-03. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  11. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends, Sophie Parkin, Sarah Hadland, Peter Wight, Scottee, Ed Harcourt and Clock Opera, Scottee on underlashes, hula-hooping and the politics of camp". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-12-15. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  12. ^ TONE, AFTER THE. "AFTER THE TONE". Google Podcasts. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  13. ^ Hannah Bruce (2014-02-06). "In pictures: The Worst of Scottee". Roundhouse.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  14. ^ "Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre – Autumn 2017". bbk.ac.uk. 2017-10-06. Retrieved 2017-10-06.
  15. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends, Paul Merton, Joanna Scanlan, Mawaan Rizwan, Dawinder Bansal, Scottee, Richard Thompson, Sarathy Korwar, Clive Anderson". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  16. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Punk's Legacy: Don Letts, This is Grime, Women in Punk, Scottee". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  17. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Flip, Bog Standard". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  18. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Short Cuts, Remix". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  19. ^ Milazzo, Franco (2013-12-05). "INTERVIEW: Scottee On Why He Loves The Estate Life". This Is Cabaret. Retrieved 2014-02-10.

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