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Biography
Scout Milsome
Scout Milsome is a Naarm-based artist working primarily with oil painting and photography. Their practice treats memory as a central medium—not as a stable archive, but as a mutable and unreliable space where distortion, slippage, and uncertainty are allowed to surface.
Across their paintings, familiar scenes and figures are rendered uncanny. A surreal logic governs the work, with images appearing staged, suspended, or slightly out of joint. Oscillating between quiet menace and circus-like theatricality, Milsome’s muted palette and tightly cropped compositions evoke spectacle and unease, transforming personal memory into imagery that is at once ambiguous and psychologically charged.
Milsome’s recent solo exhibition Can I Pay in Buttons? was presented at Oddany Gallery, Naarm. In 2024, they were a recipient of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship residency at Shark Island, Kangaroo Valley, culminating in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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Works
all kinds of love 2025. oil on canvas. 130 x 90.5cm
itchy toe packet 2023. oil on canvas. 45 x 60cm
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