Justine Watt is a Scottish artist who graduated in 2024 with a BA (Hons) in Sculpture from Edinburgh College of Art where she received the Andrew Grant Award. She was awarded the RSA John Kinross Scholarship Residency to Florence, the Hope Scott Trust Award, the VAS Flora Wood and Tim Stead Trust Award, and was a finalist in Scotland’s Emerging Sculptor Award.
Recent exhibitions include, New Contemporaries at The Royal Scottish Academy, Tatha Gallery (2025) and Hidden Door Festival and Dundee Design Festival (2024).
Working with unwanted everyday objects, her work explores how we might reuse more and throw away less. With great care, Watt dismantles them, unravelling their histories and exposing the raw essence of their constituent parts, which then serve as the basis of her work.
The laborious processes inherent in her approach, steeped in repetition, renewal and meditative rhythm, evoke echoes of domesticity, the value of labour, and timeless rituals of craftsmanship such as the techniques of steam bending and kerfing.
Within this labour lies a subversive narrative, a critique of the prevailing ethos of overconsumption and to disrupt the inertia of throwaway culture.
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Working the ClockOak Barrel Staves, Oak dowels, wax, Installation View
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Old Peat Shed I Warehouse Old Peat Shed IIOak Cask ends, wood dye, wax, Installation View
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Working the ClockDetail
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Old Peat Shed IOak Cask ends, wood dye, wax
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Old Peat Shed IIOak Cask ends, wood dye, wax
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Working the ClockDetail
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