>> Diana Scarborough >>

A British Citizen was born in Ecuador and grew up in Australia. She left Australia, travelled through China and Asia for some months before arriving in England to take a position within the high-end technology fields. During that time she completed an Honours Degree then rejoined the business community specialising in design including systems from concept to completion. She moved to America in 1994 and continued this work with a larger international focus, absorbing and interacting with the people and cultures whose influences are now apparent in her art work.

For 5 years she was based in Holland concentrating solely on extending her artistic ideas and expressions. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Art (Koninglijk Academie de Beeldende Kunsten) in Den Haag in the Netherlands in 2006 and now lives in Cambridge, UK.

As her art developed, primitive figures placed in abstract landscapes proved a reoccurring theme in painting, printing, drawing and sculpture. Her fascination with materials and her method of developing a painting or drawing using layers intuitively led her to sculpture. Although she continues to work in journals and on paper using collages, text and watercolour, that work is more introspective and private. The common essence in her work is emotional power and energy and a distillation of that is most apparent in her recent 'assemblages'.

Diana uses combinations of found materials to create assemblages with obsessive qualities which exude emotion which is often dark, with playful or sexual overtones. Tension is purposefully created through juxtaposition of different materials. The elements of fur, feathers or expired inner tube rubber infers a voodoo connection.. These assemblages exist as individual elements but when juxtaposed with others, propose stories that weave their own pattern of ideas through association and placement in a space.

Current artistic inspirations include Sophie Calle for observation and social predicaments, Louise Bourgeois with her dark sculptural forms, Jochem Hendricks for his work with disturbing materials with essential narrative and Kathy Prendergast and Dorothy Cross for their small sculptures.

Her work features in many private collections including Australia, Brazil, France, Great Britain, Israel, USA and the Netherlands.