Erika Scott

Erika Scott was born in 1987 on Gangalu Country in Biloela, Queensland, and now lives and works on Quandamooka Country at Ngudooroo/Lamb Island, Queensland. Working predominantly in sculpture and installation, Scott creates maximalist assemblages that explore material hybridity, transformation, and the emotional charge embedded in everyday objects.

Scott’s process is highly intuitive. The act of collecting, salvaging, and reconfiguring materials forms a personal visual language—one that manifests as emotional and sensory landscapes, or portals into heightened experience. By modifying domestic detritus and disrupting its intended use or value, she points to larger systems of exchange circulating through contemporary society, from consumer habits to ecological impact.

At the biennial, her installation assembles nostalgic household items swept together with centrifugal force, forming a chaotic constellation of objects in varying states of decomposition. The result is an atmosphere of environmental dread, underscored by dark humour and a sense of tragic absurdity, suggesting that, in the future, our most enduring heirlooms may be the plastic remnants of our own making.