Amanta Scott

Arising Phoenix featured at the National Gallery of Canada in April 2004.

In 1998/99 Dragon Tango and Tamashii no Kodama were exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum, Edmonton Art Gallery and Singapore International Arts Festival.

Virago Project 1992-1994 featured four Goddess sound sculptures, voice, percussion, theatre and dance.

Virago Project toured Greater Toronto, featured at the Music Gallery, Tarragon Theatre, ArtWord Theatre, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.

Virago Project featured at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1993

SpiderWoman - a giant spider web soundsculpture paralleled the Canadian Aboriginal creation story with our present reshaping and potential destruction of the world.
SpiderWoman was presented at Toronto's first Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists 1991 and later in the Caravan Stage Company's production of The Coming in Kingston, Ontario.

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LockDown, 2004, features nine sculptures created with prison beds from Kingston Penitentiary for Women; door hardware, air diffusers, office dividers and other objects recycled from government buildings.

LockDown was commissioned as part of an art/recycling initiative utilizing discarded materials provided by Public Works & Government Services Canada and Correctional Service of Canada.

LockDown was exhibited at the Art Gallery of Algoma in May 2005.

Coupled with LockDown was an installation entitled 15 Minutes of Fame - an interactive installation wherein viewers were invited to juxtapose assorted objects with a prison bed to create personal artistic statements.

Where usually a visitor might spend an average of 80 seconds interacting with a work of art, 15 Minutes of Fame succeeded in engaging visitors for up to 30 minutes!

Glove Forest began in 1998 at the Edmonton Art Gallery as an installation of gloves donated from visitors.


Evolving, Glove Forest was exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum as a series of hanging glove trees with the continued donation of gloves from visitors.

In 2002 Glove Forest evolved to become an interactive surround sound audio/video and sculpture installation addressing loss, our environment, and accountability.

Glove Forest was exhibited at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Thunder Bay Art Gallery in 2002; and at the Art Gallery of Algoma in 2003.


O Canada
In 1995 Amanta created a soundsculpture map of Canada entitled O Canada for exhibition at the World Trade Center in Taiwan, commissioned by the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei.

© 2006 Amanta Scott
Revised: Mon, May 22, 2006