Esther Suzanne Scott A Star 2026 acrylic on wood panel 30 x 20 inches $4,800 unframed click to purchase
Esther Suzanne Scott Twisted Flowers 2026 acrylic on wood panel 30 x 20 inches $1,900 unframed click to purchase
Esther Suzanne Scott Award Winning Piggie 2026 acrylic on wood panel 20 x 26 inches $1,500 unframed click to purchase
Esther Suzanne Scott Sitting Anxious Man 2026 acrylic on wood panel 20 x 16 inches $1,100 unframed click to purchase
Exhibition Essay
Biography
Installation Views
“I will eat bread and water and do this because this is what you want me to do.”
-Esther Suzanne Scott
Once upon a time, a young girl caught the eye of a puppet master who decided she would become a star. He spotted her gifts early, cultivated them, and, when she was ready, revealed her talents to the world. Anxious and perplexed but compelled to perform at the puppet master’s command, she felt moved to share her gifts with the world. She tried over and over to dazzle her audience. At times, she fell flat. But mostly, she succeeded, erupting like a supernova in a cacophony of retinal chaos, finally exhausting every last ounce of herself and dropping dead after the performance of a lifetime.
So goes the tale of A Star—Esther Suzanne Scott’s artistic alter ego and the title of her latest exhibition at dhARTworld. Blending divine inspiration with the exhaustion of daily routine, Scott constructs an allegory for her own creative practice. As is characteristic of her work, autobiography and dreamy fiction intertwine, stitched together with candy-coloured thread. These paintings evoke Scott’s covenant with a higher being to be an artist at all costs: a devotional compulsion to take the stage, regardless of what unfolds behind the scenes, and dazzle us with the performance.
— Daniel Walker
Esther Suzanne Scott is a painter, a sewer, a wordsmith and a boldly honest artist. She exposes her inner self, her hopes, her dreams, her fantasies, her foibles and allows us the viewer, a chance to land on them for a while.
Scott’s forthcoming painting show, A STAR takes the stage in vibrance and makes it a place of wonder and fear for her puppet dolly archetypes. Her performers with blond and red bouffants, slinky gowns and majorly coy eyelashes contort for our pleasure and sport fishnets like weapons. Scott’s painting bravado, which breaks down into contour line and simple retina searing colour is at once masterful, and electrically prophetic, calling to mind artists like George Condo and the singularity of Frida Kahlo.
Esther Suzanne Scott (b.1976, Canada) is a mid-career Canadian visual artist working in the mediums of fibre arts, painting and drawing. She lives and works in the town of Didsbury Alberta. Working primarily in text-based, sequin encrusted signage Scott reimagines well-worn phrases and words into new meaning, exposing conceptual fragments of the human experience. Her drawings and paintings explore figurative narratives, rendering everyday instances into strange occurrences. Humour, elegant mark-making and obsession are the root of Scott’s aesthetic.
Upcoming exhibitions include A STAR a solo show at dhARTworld in September 2026 and a solo show at McMullen Gallery in 2027. Her work is included in private collections across Canada and the public collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.