“Somewhere Between Abundance”
Taarn Scott
31 May → 7 July 2025
Window
Somewhere Between Abundance is a new project by Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland based artist Taarn Scott for the West Space Window.
Somewhere Between Abundance explores the ever-increasing impact of urbanisation and the climate crisis on our environment and specifically, the threat placed on native bees across Aotearoa and Australia.
A delicate installation of ceramic and porcelain forms suggesting hives and tunnels — real and imagined — brings together Scott's interests in object making, adornment and natural insect formations to speculate hybrid-form habitats that might emerge from the shells of what is lost.
Somewhere Between Abundance is supported by Creative New Zealand. West Space Window is supported by the City of Yarra.
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. Scott is currently researching insect habitats and working with wax and clay.
