India d’Scarlet is an Australian Artist currently based in Byron Bay, Australia.
Soft, organic and provocative, India d’Scarlett’s work is an expression of the dark and divine feminine.
Sensual, sexual, dominant, submissive, wild, tame, lost, found, vulnerable and strong.
Artist Statement
Through the use of experimental in-camera techniques d’Scarlett’s photographs emanate a painterly quality and abstraction. These processes are used to distort the perception of reality in order to visualize the sublime. Within today’s society women are portrayed to the world in a one-dimensional manner - they are either madonna or whore. However, women are infinitely more than this - divine and wild in all that they are. Beings deeply connected to Mother Earth and her cycles. Beings who bleed and lactate. Beings who are composed of the divine darkness of life as well as the divine light. d’Scarlett’s work is an exploration and expression of the organic rawness of womanhood.
Exhibitions
Elysium
BlackCat Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. 2019.
Solo Exhibition
Her Wild Dreaming
Schoolhouse Studios, Melbourne, Australia. 2019.
F*EMS Zine Launch
Noir Darkroom, Melbourne, Australia. 2019.
Emerging Artist Award 2019
Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia. 2019.
The Sex Show
Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada. 2019.
Almost Solo V.9.
In.cube8r Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. 2019.
50 Squared Art Prize.
Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. 2019.
CCP Salon
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia. 2018.
Artists in Residence Exhibition
SPAO Centre, Ottawa, Canada. 2018.
Melt
Nuit Rose Queer Arts Festival.
Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto, Canada. 2018.
Solo Exhibition
Mindset : Exposure Contact Photography Festival
Workman Arts, Toronto, Canada. 2018.
Fountain of Desire
The Sussex Contemporary, Ottawa, Canada. 2018.
The Light Fantastic
In.cube8r Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. 2017.
The Love Show
In.cube8r Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. 2017.
Not Another Bloody Grad Show
Meat Markets, Melbourne, Australia. 2016.
Education
Bachelor of Arts (Photography), High Distinction.
2013 - 2016. RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
International Exchange - Bachelor of Arts (Photography)
2016. Danish School of Media and Journalism, Copenhagen, Denmark
Collections
Works held in private collections throughout Australia and Canada.
Residencies and Awards
Finalist. Emerging Artist Award 2019
Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia.
SPAO Artist Residency. 2017 - 2018.
School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa, Canada
In-gallery Artist in Residence. 2018.
The Sussex Contemporary, Ottawa, Canada
Winner of the Kalman Feitel Photography Award. 2016
RMIT University, Australia