IONA SCOTT

BIOGRAPHY

Since completing a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (Sculpture) in 1991, Iona has been exhibiting her paintings and hiring out her sculptures of plankton and sea creatures to music videos, clubs and galleries in London and San Francisco with the aim of emphasising the importance of nature within our lives. She has constructed a ten foot Papier-mache shark sculpture for the London Aquarium, made a documentary on the Artist Andrew Logan and worked as a model maker on the series ‘Treacle People' for LWT. After studying an MA in Computer Animation and Digital Special Effects at Bournemouth University in 1997, she gained experience working with the Natural History Museum and in the Computer Games Industry as a 3D Artist. More recently she has been leading Art Workshops for children in schools and in 2004 she completed a Commission for a permanent installation of her Stereoscopic 3D Animation 'Swimming with Plankton' for the Marine Display under the Palm House at the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. In the same year she completed an eight foot angler fish sculpture for Greenpeace at Glastonbury Festival.