Scott A. McNichol
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Artist Bio
Scott A. McNichol is a successful working artist who has exhibited and sold across Ontario and in Quebec. His art resides in several private collections worldwide including Sydney, New York, Paris and Amsterdam. Although focussed on his sculptural constructs, he is also recognised for his colourful acrylic paintings and stunning black & white photography. This broad spectrum of work centres on figurative representations, but his repertoire includes some landscape and abstraction.
 
In addition to having a family tradition in the visual arts – his father is an OCA graduate and alumni of the Doon School of Fine Arts - Scott A. McNichol is a graduate of Journalism from Conestoga College in Kitchener and holds a degree in Philosophy and Fine Arts from the University of Guelph. Currently he teaches visual arts at Scholars Hall Private School and instructs Continuing Education students at Conestoga College about the language and techniques of fine art.
In Face of It
 
In his upcoming project, artist Scott McNichol has conceived of a sculpture specifically for CAFKA.07: Haptic.  Using current and traditional methods, natural and man-made materials, the piece entitled In Face of It consists of a human facial representation, in bark over wire frame.  As the compositions is considered, the resulting final form will have seen many alterations.
 
Expressing a synthesis of new & old, McNichol strives to spark an understanding between our humanity and the plastic extensions that we continue to push for, essentially empiricism versus innatism.  In exposing the irony locked within the very desire to attach a deeper meaning to that which  is already too complex to fully understand - the artist speaks directly to those who wish to contemplate - and also welcomes the viewer who just likes to look.. and desires to touch.
 
Scott A. McNichol is presented by the Homer Watson House & Gallery.
 
Digital Tour of this project on: