Scottee Explained

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 to 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. From 2017 to 2023, he was the Artistic Director of Scottee & Friends Ltd., which he established with Executive Producer Molly Nicholson.[15]

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Early life

Scottee was born on Queens Crescent, Kentish Town West Estate. He was expelled from school aged 14[20] after which he never returned to education. He has no formal training or qualifications.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Homepage . Scottee . February 10, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140131023334/http://www.scottee.co.uk/ . January 31, 2014 .
  2. Web site: Scottee interview - Cabaret - Time Out london . Timeout.com . 2010-01-18 . 2014-02-10.
  3. Web site: Vice - Meet 'The Real Liam Gallagher', the 79-Year-Old Irish Artist Tackling Ageism in the Art World . vice.com . 2014-05-26 . 2014-05-26.
  4. Web site: Huck - What happens when you ask your community if it's homophobic . huckmagazine.com . 2017-03-03 . 2017-03-03.
  5. Web site: The Guardian - The Big Beauty Contest . theguardian.com . 2012-03-12 . 2012-03-12.
  6. Web site: PETERBOROUGH PRIDE 2018. 2020-10-11. Metal. en.
  7. Web site: Fat Guys Talk About Living Life as Fat Guys. 2020-10-11. www.vice.com. 5 November 2018 . en.
  8. Web site: 2019-08-08. Scottee: Class review – check your privilege, row A. 2020-10-11. the Guardian. en.
  9. Web site: scottee global citizen - Google Search. 2020-10-11. www.google.com.
  10. Web site: UK arts: reasons not to get involved | Culture professionals network | Guardian Professional . Theguardian.com . 2014-02-03 . 2014-02-10.
  11. Web site: 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 . 2014-02-10.
  12. Web site: TONE. AFTER THE. AFTER THE TONE. 2020-10-11. Google Podcasts. en.
  13. Web site: Hannah Bruce . In pictures: The Worst of Scottee . Roundhouse.org.uk . 2014-02-06 . 2014-02-10.
  14. Web site: Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre – Autumn 2017 . bbk.ac.uk . 2017-10-06 . 2017-10-06.
  15. Web site: Scottee leaves theatre collective Scottee and Friends after five years . thestage.co.uk . 2023-03-21 . 2024-05-08.
  16. Web site: BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends, Paul Merton, Joanna Scanlan, Mawaan Rizwan, Dawinder Bansal, Scottee, Richard Thompson, Sarathy Korwar, Clive Anderson. 2020-10-11. www.bbc.co.uk.
  17. Web site: BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Punk's Legacy: Don Letts, This is Grime, Women in Punk, Scottee. 2020-10-11. www.bbc.co.uk.
  18. Web site: BBC Radio 4 - Flip, Bog Standard. 2020-10-11. www.bbc.co.uk. 27 February 2019 .
  19. Web site: BBC Radio 4 - Short Cuts, Remix. 2020-10-11. www.bbc.co.uk.
  20. Web site: Milazzo . Franco . INTERVIEW: Scottee On Why He Loves The Estate Life . This Is Cabaret . 2013-12-05 . 2014-02-10.

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