Scott Redford

Scott Redford, "Urinal, Melbourne 2003", 2003, Ilfochrome photograph, artist proof 1 (edition of 10)
Image courtesy of the artist and The University of Queensland.

Bio

Scott Redford (b. 1962) is a highly significant and influential gay Australian contemporary artist who has been exhibiting since the early 1980s. Redford's work is rooted in his hometown of the Gold Coast in Queensland and heavily draws from Australian vernacular culture. Redford's work reflects his own position on personal and cultural identity in Australian art. His work has often addressed gay male desire and the politics of HIV/AIDS – himself HIV positive. Redford's photographs of urinals are emblematic of this. These images importantly highlight gay cruising culture at a time when gay desire was predominately contextualised via disease. Redford's work often riffs on the mainstream emphasis on youth and beauty in gay male culture.

Redford has exhibited widely and is represented in most state museum collections in Australia. In 2010 Redford had a major summer exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. In 1992-3 Redford co-curated with Luke Roberts an exhibition entirely of gay male artists called You are Here at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, which also toured to the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. This was the first exhibition of its kind in Australia.