Scarlett Bowman
Artist Profile
Scarlett Bowman is a London-based artist whose practice bridges collage, assemblage and sculptural relief to explore how materials carry memory, cultural trace and physical history.
Working with found textiles and everyday remnants, fabric offcuts, plastics and packaging, Bowman repositions discarded matter through processes of cutting, casting and stitch. Traditional craft techniques are foregrounded not as decoration, but as structural tools through which material narratives are reassembled. Handling is central to her approach: surfaces are pierced, folded and sutured, allowing wear and vulnerability to remain visible.
Her Fragments series—from which the Ellipsis edition Tatters derives—builds layered compositions that hover between painting and sculpture. Works appear flat at first glance, yet retain physical depth and tactility, blurring distinctions between two and three dimensions.
Bowman graduated from Chelsea College of Art in 2014 and was shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2016, a significant early career milestone. Her work has since been exhibited in London at Fold Gallery, Rook & Raven and The Dot Project, and she completed a residency at the Villa Lena Foundation in Tuscany in 2018. Her pieces have also been included in Soho House collections.
Across her practice, Scarlett Bowman continues to investigate how fragments, whether textile, object or memory, can be reconfigured into new visual structures that resist fixed categorisation.
