Scottee

Scottee is an artist and writer from Kentish Town, North London

His early work has often been acknowledged as controversial, throwing cake at Rihanna as part of an X Factor performance and spitting milkshake over Nick Grimshaw.[1] On one occasion the police arrived at one performance of 'Mess' to investigate a suspected breach of public indecency laws. The police found no evidence of illegal activity.[2]

More recently, Scottee has turned to creating activist artworks and projects with communities across the UK and Ireland. These have included working with his grandfather to tackle ageism,[3] public artwork in Southend addressing queer trauma,[4] Hamburger Queen - a talent show for fat people exploring fat activism,[5] establishing Peterborough Pride,[6] participant led dance show Fat Blokes[7] and stage show Class[8] looking at poverty and class system in the UK

He has written on subjects for newspapers such as The Guardian, i-D Magazine and Global Citizen[9] In a piece in The Guardian expressing concerns about pay and the problems of working in the arts industry he characterises it as; "The arts are essentially a namby-pamby life of stealing Wi-Fi, cheap coffee, waiting tables and overpriced weekend workshops in improvisation that leaves you, at times, financially and mentally unstable."[10]

He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends after first appearing on the programme on 18 December 2012.,[11] he has also written columns and presented for Front Row and Cultural Front Line. In 2020 Scottee became the hose of After The Tone podcast,[12] first published in August that year.

From 2013 - 2016 Scottee was Associate Artist at Roundhouse, London.[13] In 2017 Scottee became Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, University of London[14] and 2018 he became an Associate Artist at HOME, Manchester.

Scottee is the Artistic Director of Scottee & Friends Ltd. which he established in 2017 with Executive Producer Molly Nicholson.