Biography

Scott Hudson is a printmaker living and working in Dundee, Scotland. Graduating in 1996 from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design-University of Dundee, in Illustration and Printmaking. Employed at Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Studio as a Technical Instructor since 2001 working extensively with the organisations programme of public access printmaking, editioning and educational projects, utilizing skills in traditional print techniques and new technologies. Also currently employed at Duncan of Jordanstone and by McManus Museums and Galleries (Dundee). His own freelance practice has led him to exhibiting work in the UK and internationally. His recent research has been based in North West Territories, Canada where he has been involved in the establishment of a Print Studio in a Dene First Nation community.

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The Sambaa K’e Print Studio – Printmaking in the Western Arctic
The Sambaa K’e (Trout Lake) Print Studio is situated within a small ‘Dene’ First Nation community on the shores of Trout Lake. The Print Studio was opened in August 2010 by the people of Sambaa K’e as a creative and educational facility, that will compliment their traditional values based on an economy of fishing, hunting and trapping.

To initiate this project printmakers and artists Gavin Renwick, of University of Alberta, Paul Harrison, of the Visual Research Centre, University of Dundee, and Scott Hudson, of Dundee Contemporary Arts, developed a series of training workshops based on, and through, the medium and practice of printmaking. The purpose of their initial visit had more than one objective. The printmakers delivered training that introduced aspects of the printing process through an appropriate traditional Japanese technique called Gyotaku (fish printing). This induction has been incorporated into more mainstream techniques such as relief and intaglio, combining these with contemporary developments such a digital processes, through on going training and capacity building.

Since opening the Print Studio has attracted a keen interest through out the ‘Dehcho’ region of the Northwest Territories, and is seen to have the potential of a centre of arts for the Western Arctic, with financial funding being invested in the project from local government.

Subsequent visits by Renwick, Harrison and Hudson over the last three years has seen the studio’s programme; expand technical training and print methods, collaborating with the communities elementary school in art projects and continued on the production of limited print editions, which focus on the Dene culture and their environment. It is the intention that the print studio will help in; conveying the message of the people from Sambaa K’e and become a facility for dialogue and collaboration for both the Dehcho region and the international printmaking and artistic community.