SCAF: Collaborative Funding Opportunities

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Scott Creative Arts Foundation

WHO WE ARE

The Scott Creative Arts Foundation

is an arts charity based just outside

the beautiful market town of Thirsk,

North Yorkshire.

Our foundation holds an Annual Award

for Emerging Artists in the Yorkshire

Region, loans art works to community

spaces, provides workshops and has

created a community garden project

to name but a few of our ventures.

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A MESSAGE

FROM

SCAF’S FOUNDER

To honour the wishes of two of my

dearest friends is one of the greatest

joys of my life.

Dr Sue Armstrong

Artistic Director & Trustee

Sharing part of the creative journeys

of our growing emerging artist family,

working with interns and volunteers,

and seeing the works of Michael and

Eileen still bringing joy and inspiration

to others, makes the hard work behind

the scenes so worthwhile.


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Meeting

Michael & Eileen

If we are lucky in life, we come across exceptional

people who change our lives forever. Michael and Eileen

Scott were two such individuals.

They introduced themselves to me during a coffee

break at a meeting where I was delivering a presentation,

and invited me to tea the following Sunday afternoon

to discuss my material further. The rest as they say,

is history.

SCAF’s progress

& partnerships

Many years followed of wonderful deep and gritty

discussions, group work, poetry readings, sumptuous

gatherings, art exhibitions and most of all friendship

and love. Since we began in 2016, the Foundation has

gone from strength to strength and we are forging ever

stronger links with artists, regional businesses and our

local community.

We have had some knocks along the way, not least was

having our plans for our purpose built sustainable gallery

and community art hub turned down by local planners.

Setbacks bring other opportunities however; it has led

to the formation of our Living Landscape Community

Project focusing on the land, growing food, health and

wellbeing and it has encouraged us to reach out into the

far corners of Yorkshire to find community spaces for

our exhibitions, spreading the word about SCAF and our

family of emerging artists to a far wider audience. This is

where you come in as we are looking for partners.

Ways to

get involved

It might be that you have a premises, a skill set, or

are wanting to invest in an established Yorkshire based

charity. Please reach out and join us on our journey.

Dr Sue Armstrong Founder and Trustee community

garden project to name but a few of our ventures.

scottcreativeartsfoundation.org.uk

Part

&

nerships

funding

Partnerships

We are looking for individuals and

businesses who would love to come on

board and collaborate with us in our work

supporting the arts and artists in Yorkshire,

and to fulfill our ultimate goal which is to

build a purpose built gallery and workshop

facility for artists at our Headquarters in

Thirsk.

Becoming a partner is not only about

giving money, it could be that you have

a particular skill set or a product or byproduct

that might help us or you might be

willing to give us some of your time to help

during exhibitions for example.

Funding

We are seeking match funding for our

projects going forward and can tailor

a partnership package to meet your

corporate social responsibility needs and

aspirations. We are currently seeking

partners for:

• SCAF Emerging Artist Award

• Living Landscape Community Project

• Workshops and Regional Exhibitions

• The SCAF Gallery Project

Each of our projects is backed by broad

social media coverage and marketing that

will ensure that your brand is promoted

widely.

Each project will also give an opportunity

for your staff and corporate clients to

engage with the charity with events

associated with the project.

How to get involved

If you would like to help us at any level

from sitting on the door to becoming

a major corporate partner please

contact our founder and artistic director,

Sue Armstrong:

sue@scottcreativeartsfoundation.org.uk

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THE SCOTT

COLLECTION

SCAF is the home of Michael and Eileen Scott’s

permanent collection that includes over 1000

artworks, books, poems and memorabilia from

two extraordinary people.

And another final thing, within my

wrinkled skin there is an ambivalent

child, holy and profane, who thinks

he sees upon wonders, flowers

in rocks, birds made of air, fire

dancing, and the eternal icons

of his tribe.

MICHAEL SCOTT EXCERPT FROM

MICHAEL’S PREFACE TO INWARD EYE

Michael and Eileen Scott were both botanists and for the

main part of their careers worked together in agricultural

research and business, culminating in Michael becoming

CEO of a large agricultural company in Yorkshire.

On retiring from the rigors of business they devoted their

lives to creativity and the exploration of consciousness

and meaning in life. Between them they produced

hundreds of paintings, authored many books, wrote

poetry; fully immersing themselves in art. literature,

music and human development. In everything they did,

their connection to and understanding of the natural

world came through.

During their lifetimes their artworks were hung in private

and public collections. They were supportive of young

and emerging talent throughout Yorkshire and provided

an annual prize to students at Langwith College in

York, which to this day holds a collection of their

artwork. Their work could be found in private and public

collections far and wide.

Towards the end of Michael’s life, Eileen having passed

away on Christmas Day 2015, I was blessed with many

opportunities to discuss first hand how he wanted their

legacy to be used. The final details were completed over

a pot of tea at The Corner Cafe in Birdforth, just down

the A19 from where our headquarters are now based.


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DAYDREAMING BY

EILEEN SCOTT

POPPY FIELD BY

MICHAEL SCOTT

The three main core objectives for SCAF, that we agreed

upon together are:

• To preserve and display for the public the Collection

of original paintings and creative works of Eileen and

Michael Scott

• To provide access, understanding and enjoyment of the

Collection to the public through exhibitions, publications

and education

• To promote, support and encourage high standards

of creative arts principally amongst young and

emerging artists

It has been our greatest honour to fulfill those wishes

and more.

DR SUE ARMSTRONG.

FLORAL REFLECTION BY

EILEEN SCOTT


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Michael

Scott

Artist, writer,

poet & philosopher

1931–2016

Michael Scott’s early years in rural Gloucestershire

laid the foundation for his lifelong interest in landscape

and wildlife.

Although he qualified as a biologist and acquired a PhD

at university, his feeling for the beauties and tragedies of

nature was diverted for years by his agricultural research

and, eventually, senior management posts. He became

a part-time field botanist and ornithologist, and developed

his skills as a landscape painter, which activities

counterpoised the commercial environment.

Early retirement made it possible to spread and intensify

the activities which nourished his soul. In the last twentyfive

years, Michael worked in the personal development

field and became a poet and novelist alongside his

passion for painting.

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Eileen

Scott

Artist, writer,

poet & philosopher

1929–2015

Eileen Scott had an amazing career. In the male

dominated world of business of the 1960’s she

fought her way up through the ranks of senior

executives at ICI, then the largest chemical

company on earth

Like her husband Michael, Eileen had overlapping

careers in biology, business strategy, and the arts.

Among her prolific creative output Eileen

has authored several books and she was an

artist having produced hundreds of paintings.

Eileen’s work will long be a reminder to us all

of her deep wisdom, wide-ranging intellect,

prolific creativity and amazing beauty.

She is greatly missed by all who knew her, but her

paintings and books will long live on to remind us

of a true woman of substance.


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SENIOR OFFICERS

AND

TRUSTEES

Our core team is dedicated to the aims

and objectives of the foundation and

to creating partnerships in the Yorkshire

region.

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Dr Sue Armstrong

A VetMB VetFFHom CertIAVH MRCVS RsHom

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND TRUSTEE

Sue graduated from Cambridge in History of

Art and later in veterinary medicine. She runs

a veterinary centre, lectures internationally,

and recently published a textbook on cancer

in animals.

A homeopath with a dual passion for art

and science, she’s married to publisher Rick

Armstrong and has two children.

Canon Keith Madeley, MBE

CHAIR OF THE TRUSTEES

Keith, a prominent networker in Yorkshire,

supports charities and businesses, drawing

on extensive experience in corporate,

nonprofit, and financial sectors.

Awarded an MBE in 2011 and other honors,

he promotes educational books by his wife,

Chris, and leads the Unity Club in Leeds, a

prestigious business community.

Dr Wendy McGrandles

BVMS VetMFHom MRCVS

TRUSTEE

Wendy brings nearly 30 years in business,

having established a veterinary practice and

holistic brand.

Working alongside Sue Armstrong in

veterinary homeopathy, she joined SCAF

inspired by a shared passion for holistic

health. A former RDA Glasgow chair, she

contributes extensive charity expertise to

support SCAF’s goals and projects.

Jane Young, BSc

CURATOR

Jane has served as SCAF’s Gallery Curator

since 2016. Inspired by her meetings with

Michael Scott, she channels his energy and

vision to help shape a Foundation that would

honor both him and Eileen.

With a deep passion for art and wellbeing,

Jane remains committed to promoting artists

and fostering creativity, continually finding

ways to encourage and uplift others in the

creative process.


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EMERGING

ARTISTS

The SCAF Emerging Artist Awards are

a little more challenging than some

awards as we ask the artists to submit

a proposal based upon a theme.

Ten artists are then selected to create

their original artwork.

We also ask that they produce a short accompanying video of the

process of creating their piece which is a different skill set but has

proved to be one of the best additions we ever made to the brief.

These little videos are being used by the artists on their own media

platforms and bring in a whole new audience who may not have

previously appreciated the skills and thought involved in the creative

process. We don’t then drop the artists at the exhibition door.

SCAF remains a hub for them going forward. They might branch out

and offer workshops or hold meetings at our headquarters, or work

with our archive.

We want to keep in touch and follow their careers. Supporting emerging

artists is more than handing out a prize.

Having a theme provides a

depth and richness to the final

exhibition.

Visitors are treated to 10 unique

interpretations of a subject that

can both challenge and delight.


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It has really done my

self esteem a lot of good

and I feel so much more

confident now.

JESS KIDD WINNER OF

THE SCAF EAA 2023: LIGHT

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SCAF IN THE

COMMUNITY

The Scott’s loaned and donated artworks to Yorkshire

based hospitals during their lifetimes and SCAF has

continued that tradition.

It is a perfect way to utilise the large collection of works

that we hold at SCAF and helps us reach an audience

who may have little formal interest in art, but who at their

most stressful times in life, the colour, form, texture and

imagery on the walls of a hospital corridor or waiting

area, might just gain some small benefit.


Working with the Arts Teams from some of our leading

Yorkshire Hospital NHS Trusts, as well as with patient

groups, are highly rewarding collaborations for SCAF.

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Lawrence Batley Theatre

(HUDDERSFIELD)

The touring exhibition of our SCAF Emerging Artist Award

2023 was kindly hosted by the Lawrence Batley Theatre in

Huddersfield. Sharing the work of our emerging artists and

our permanent collection across the Yorkshire region is a

vital part of our work.

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TIMELINE

OF EVENTS

2017

2018

IMAGO EXHIBITION

Paintings by Michael Scott

Ornhams Hall, Boroughbridge

FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING

EXHIBITION

Paintings by Michael Scott


ANOTHER BEGINNING

EXHIBITION

Artists in Residence:

Peter Spafford and Lucy Saggers

Ornhams Hall

MULGRAVE WOODS EXHIBITION

Rysedale Folk Museum,

Hutton Le Hole

FIGUARETIVELY SPEAKING

EXHIBITION

Rysedale Folk Museum,

Hutton Le Hole

2024

2023

LAUNCH OF THE LIVING

LANDSCAPE COMMUNITY

PROJECT 2024

SCAF EMERGING ARTIST AWARD

2024

Perception

Leeds Community College,

Quarry Hill, Leeds

SCAF TAKES OVER REGIONAL

HEADQUARTERS OF FIRE

AND RESCUE IN THIRSK IN

COLLABORATION WITH SKIPPKO

23/08/24


2024

Touring Exhibition

The Fire House, Northallerton

EMERGING JOURNEYS

EXHIBITION

Works by past finalists of the SCAF

Emerging Artist Award highlighting

their journeys as artists

The Fire House, Northallerton


2023

Light

The Art House, Thirsk

EMERGING ARTIST 2023

Touring Exhibition

Laurence Batley Theatre,

Huddersfield


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2019

2020

LOAN EXHIBITION

OF MICHAEL SCOTT’S WORKS

York Hospital

SCAF PURCHASES

The Art House at Thirsk

SCAF EMERGING ARTIST

AWARD 2019

Metamorphosis

Ornhams Hall


2020/21

Climate


EMERGING ARTIST AWARD

2019

Touring Exhibition

Rural Arts, Thirsk

2022

2021

SCAF MOVES IN TO THE ART

HOUSE, THIRSK

LOAN EXHIBITION OF EILEEN

SCOTT’S WORKS

Scarborough Hospital


AWARD 2022

Synergy

The Art House, Thirsk

LOAN COLLECTION OF THE

SCOTTS’ WORKS

2022-2027

York Community Stadium


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COMBINING ART & NATURE

FOR THE HEALTH & WELLBEING

OF EVERYONE

SOPHIE SIMPSON: FEELING GLACIAL,

WINNER SCAF EAA 2021

Our health and wellbeing, both physical and mental, are

intimately connected to our ability to constantly adapt to

change in our environment and circumstances.

Connecting with nature, finding a sense of belonging with

the nature that surrounds us and finding creative outlets

for our thoughts and emotions are vital ways to support

each and every one of us through the good and the

difficult times in our lives.

At SCAF a deep connection with nature is central to all

that we do just as it was for our benefactors.


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ROS WALKER: RADIANCE, FINALIST SCAF EAA 2023

Art and nature feed the very soul

of mankind

• From the natural pigments to its shapes and rhythms,

nature is to be found everywhere in art

• Connecting with nature is not simply about striving

to recreate it in imagery or form, it is the springboard

for our imaginations

• Nature inspires creativity

• Nature is beyond naive beauty, there is cruelty,

struggle, conflict, decay woven within its story

• Our relationship with nature and the environment

is a complex tapestry of changing perceptions.

Art is a language of exploration

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TO EXPLORE THE

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN

HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS

AND CREATIVITY

Consciousness is a baffling phenomenon,

impossible to study without using

consciousness, but seeing must be a major

component of mind itself.

I wonder if lack of all the five senses means

there’s no mind at all, as how would we

acquire data without the senses and how

would we process data if we had none?

Michael Scott


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• Art is almost exclusively

the reserve of humans

• The inner nature of the

artist is reflected in their art

and our response to a work

of art can teach us about

ourselves as well as about

the art itself

• Through works of art,

humans strive towards

consciousness

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SCAF INTERN PROGRAMME

Collaborating with regional universities

Working with SCAF has been a fantastic

opportunity to put my research skills into

practice as a recent sociology graduate

and to explore the impact of the art

community in and around North Yorkshire.

ALICIA DORÉ

Graduate Intern 2024

As a recent fine art graduate I have found

working with SCAF to be a wonderful

opportunity to explore my creativity and

support the organisation in supporting

the practices of artists based in North

Yorkshire.

AMELIA PETHULLIS

Graduate Intern 2024


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MERGING ART PROJECTS

WITH GROWING TO HELP

MAKE ART ACCESSIBLE

SCAF living landscape

community project



Connecting people with nature through

working the land, growing and sharing

food and spending time with others,

helps support the health and wellbeing

of people in our local community.

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SCAF NORTHALLERTON

PROJECT

In collaboration with SKIPPKO

In August 2024 SCAF moved

into the former Regional

Headquarters of the North

Yorkshire Fire and Rescue

Service.

This is an exciting space for us

to hold exhibitions, workshops

and to provide studio spaces

for regional artists to use.


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SCAF GALLERY

One of our core aims at SCAF is to build

a gallery and community space on our

land just outside Thirsk.

H I G H L E V E L L A N D S C A P E A N D B U I L D I N G S K E T C H

It is not just a space to hang paintings; it is

a space for learning and creativity that serves

local artists and our local rural community.

Our Living Landscape Community

Project will now become an integral

part of the overall layout of the

land enhancing our offering to the

local community; bringing people

together to experience art, creativity,

horticulture and nature in one small

oasis.

Sue Armstrong


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We have worked with Native Architects to design a

multipurpose space that blends unobtrusively into

the landscape.


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VISIT US

IN THIRSK

Our Head Office and the home of

Living Landscape Community Project

is situated on the York Road, one mile

from Thirsk town centre.

Travelling from Thirsk town centre

Follow the signs for the A19 York.

We are on the LEFT hand side, the last roadside set

of houses before the Bagby turn. You will see our sign

below the sign for Lowmac Caravan Storage.

Turn in through the gates and follow the short drive

around to the left - you will see the car park ahead of you.

Coming in from the A168

TRAVELLING EAST

Come off on the 2nd Thirsk turn. Follow the signs to York

A19 (then see above).

TRAVELLING WEST

Come off on the first Thirsk turn and turn left onto the

A19 York (then see above).

HEAD OFFICE

The Art House

York Road,

Thirsk

YO7 3AD

GALLERY

The Fire House,

(Former North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue),

Thurston Road,

Northallerton,

DL6 2NA

t: 01423 314 103

e: info@scottcreativeartsfoundation.org.uk

w: scottcreativeartsfoundation.org.uk


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The Art House

York Road

Thirsk

YO7 3AD

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COLLABORATIVE

FUNDING

OPPORTUNITIES

Head office

The Art House

York Road

Thirsk

YO7 3AD

Gallery

The Fire House

(Former North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue)

Thurston Road

Northallerton

DL6 2NA

t: 01423 314 103

e: info@scottcreativeartsfoundation.org.uk

w: scottcreativeartsfoundation.org.uk

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