SCOTT, Ian, 1945-
Lattice No.63 (Painting)
Constituting a system that became a style, Ian
Scott’s lattices remain his signature works.
His “basic over-and-under pattern” paintings
went into production in 1976, after a decade
of Girlie paintings. Like an industrial product,
each lattice suggests a limitless number of
colour ways, but Scott drew the line on the
series in 1982 after making over 200
sequentially numbered variations on the idea.
Now that he is again investigating the pictorial
possibilities of scantily-clad girls, Scott rarely
makes a lattice painting. When he does, the
resulting interlace is like a puzzle solved: a
two-dimensional Rubik’s cube. The compositions
are tricky but seem deceptively simple: a few
bands of pure acrylic colour laid down over a
square white canvas ground.
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