Taarn Scott is an artist from Ōtepoti, based in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. Their practice is multidisciplinary and often collaborative, creating tactile objects informed by ornamentation and jewellery, with forms that speak to ideas around habitat, environmental concerns and geographical histories. They are currently researching insect habitats and working with wax, clay and metal.
Scott’s recent projects include Somewhere Between Abundance exhibited in Naarm through West Space & in Ōtepoti through Slant Art Project Space. This project was made possible with the support of CNZ.
2025 Somewhere Between Abundance, Slant Art Project Space
2025 Somewhere Between Abundance, West Space Window
2025 tend, tended, tender, Grace Aotearoa Stockroom
2024 Burrow (Collapse), Spectrum Project Space, Perth
2023 Windchime Portrait, the Heat
2021 Outlining/ Shifting Channels, Refinery Artspace
2021 Transient Places, ADJO
2021 Guide, Razklon, Bulgaria
Collaborative projects
2026 salt crusted with Rubes Prattley-Jones, Plomacy
2026 Let The Honey Soak Through with Hana Pera Aoake, Te Atamira
2025 Termitarium with Finn Petrie, Audio Foundation
2025 He tuna ora, he wai ora with Hana Pera Aoake, Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki
2024 and with his kiss I became a braided river, commission for Wesley John Fourie, Ashburton Art Gallery
2024 Deep History with Hana Pera Aoake, Atelier - Nelson Clay Week
2023 Ngā hau o Tāwhirimātea with Hana Pera Aoake in collaboration with Riki Pirihi,
Enjoy Contemporary Project Space
2022 No Water in the Water Fountain with Hana Pera Aoake, Cargo Bike Art Project Space
2022 An Endless Sky of Honey with Hana Pera Aoake and Wesley John Fourie, Meanwhile Gallery
2022 Invasive Weeds with Hana Pera Aoake and Wesley John Fourie, The Physics Room
2022 The Future of Dirt with Hana Pera Aoake and Wesley John Fourie, RM
Gallery & Project Space
2021 Whitebox installation with Hana Pera Aoake, Fringe Otepoti
2021 An Endless Sky of Honey with Hana Pera Aoake and Wesley John Fourie, Spaceland
Group Exhibitions
2027 The Ocean Remembers the Shore, Sculpture on the Gulf
2026 Sanderson & Mother Mother
2026 Treatise on the Cyanometer, TCB
2025 Wind to fly and flicker the flame, Mother Mother
2024 Artist in Residence Exhibition, ASP
2024 Kaipara Gardens Sculpture Exhibition
2024 Re. Object, Object Maker Aotearoa
2023 Folded Memory, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
2023 Kaipara Gardens Sculpture Exhibition
2023 Pieces, Spaces, Species, Blue Oyster Project Space
2023 (Grow)home, the Anteroom Project Space (curated)
2022 BODY-MAKER, OLGA
2022 Kindling Glints, Wave Project Space
2021 All is Full of Love, Broker Galleries
Residencies
2025 Driving Creek Railway
2024-2025 Object Maker Aotearoa Fellowship
2024 Auckland Studio Potters
2021 No. 15, Collingwood, Golden Bay
2020 VSPAR - Virtual St Petersburg Artist Residency, Pushkinskaya-10, St
Petersburg, Russia
Other
2025 CNZ Early Career Fund Toi Tipu Toi Rea
2023-2026 RM Gallery & Project Space Collective member
2024-2025 Window Gallery Curator
2027 The Ocean Remembers the Shore, Sculpture on the Gulf
2026 Sanderson & Mother Mother
2026 Treatise on the Cyanometer, TCB
2025 Wind to fly and flicker the flame, Mother Mother
2024 Artist in Residence Exhibition, ASP
2024 Kaipara Gardens Sculpture Exhibition
2024 Re. Object, Object Maker Aotearoa
2023 Folded Memory, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
2023 Kaipara Gardens Sculpture Exhibition
2023 Pieces, Spaces, Species, Blue Oyster Project Space
2023 (Grow)home, the Anteroom Project Space (curated)
2022 BODY-MAKER, OLGA
2022 Kindling Glints, Wave Project Space
2021 All is Full of Love, Broker Galleries
Residencies
2025 Driving Creek Railway
2024-2025 Object Maker Aotearoa Fellowship
2024 Auckland Studio Potters
2021 No. 15, Collingwood, Golden Bay
2020 VSPAR - Virtual St Petersburg Artist Residency, Pushkinskaya-10, St
Petersburg, Russia
Other
2025 CNZ Early Career Fund Toi Tipu Toi Rea
2023-2026 RM Gallery & Project Space Collective member
2024-2025 Window Gallery Curator