Scottee is an artist and writer from
Kentish Town, North London
His early work has often been acknowledged as controversial, throwing cake at
Rihanna
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as part of an ''
X Factor'' performance and spitting milkshake over
Nick Grimshaw
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.
On one occasion the police arrived at one performance of 'Mess' to investigate a suspected breach of public indecency laws. The police found no evidence of illegal activity.
More recently, Scottee has turned to creating
activist
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artworks and projects with communities across the UK and Ireland. These have included working with his grandfather to tackle
ageism
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, public artwork in
Southend addressing
queer
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trauma, Hamburger Queen - a talent show for fat people exploring fat activism, establishing Peterborough Pride, participant led dance show Fat Blokes and stage show Class looking at poverty and class system in the UK
Scottee has written on subjects for newspapers such as ''
The Guardian
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'',
i-D Magazine
''i-D'' is a British bimonthly magazine published by Vice Media, dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture. ''i-D'' was founded by designer and former ''Vogue'' art director Terry Jones in 1980. The first issue was published in the for ...
and Global Citizen In a piece in ''The Guardian'' expressing concerns about pay and the problems of working in the arts industry he characterises it as; "The arts are essentially a namby-pamby life of stealing Wi-Fi, cheap coffee, waiting tables and overpriced weekend workshops in improvisation that leaves you, at times, financially and mentally unstable."
He is a regular contributor to
BBC Radio 4
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's ''Loose Ends'' after first appearing on the programme on 18 December 2012., he has also written columns and presented for Front Row and Cultural Front Line. In 2020 Scottee became the host of After The Tone podcast, first published in August that year.
From 2013 - 2016 Scottee was Associate Artist at
Roundhouse, London. In 2017 Scottee became Associate Research Fellow at
Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, University of London and 2018 he became an Associate Artist at HOME, Manchester.
Scottee is the Artistic Director of Scottee & Friends Ltd. which he established in 2017 with Executive Producer Molly Nicholson.
Radio
*''Loose Ends'' ''(2012 - present)''
*''Front Row, Punk'' ''(2016)''
*''Short Cuts
Noel(2019)''
*''Flip, Bog Standard'' ''(2019)''
*''Short Cuts, Remix (2020)''
*''Front Row
Risk List(2020)''
Awards and recognition
*''Associate Research Fellow at
Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, University of London'' (2017)
Early life
Scottee was born on
Queens Crescent,
Kentish Town West Estate. He was expelled from school aged 14
after which he never returned to education. He has no formal training or qualifications.
See also
*
Loose Ends (radio)
''Loose Ends'' is a British radio programme originally broadcast on Saturday mornings, and then transmitted early Saturday evenings from 1998 by BBC Radio 4. It was hosted by Ned Sherrin until 2006 and has been hosted by Clive Anderson, Nikki ...
References
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External links
Official website
Living people
British comedians
Year of birth missing (living people)