Canadian Artist Amanta Scott with her encaustic painting: The Archer, a self portrait created at the curator’s request for her solo exhibition Eyeing Medusa at Orillia Museum of Art & History, 2023
Canadian Artist Amanta Scott with her encaustic painting, La Medusa Honorable — Impression of Miriam Germán Brito
“I learned long ago that others treat you not as you are but as they are.” — Miriam Germán Brito
Medusa refers both to the archetypal wronged-woman with venomous snakes for hair, whose rage, pain and horrifying image turns unsuspecting viewers to stone; and to the immortal, deadly jellyfish, subphylum Medusozoa.
Miriam Germán Brito is a lawyer, former Supreme Court Judge and current Attorney General of the Dominican Republic. Fiercely committed to fighting administrative corruption rooted in the previous government, she launched Operation Medusa, charging officials with crimes of association of criminals, fraud against the State, bribery, coalition of officials, falsification of public documents, identity theft, electronic crimes, and money laundering.
www.amantascott.com/medusa-miriam-german-brito
Canadian Artist Amanta Scott with encaustic painting Pythia Paused — Impression of Queen Elizabeth II, Orillia Museum of Art & History, 2023
“Now then— with teeth or without?” — Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (as said before each portrait sitting.)
The Pythia (the Oracle of Delphi) high priestess of the Temple of Apollo, was the most prestigious, authoritative oracle and one of the most powerful women of the classical Greek world.
The role of Pythia is intriguing— as is that of The Queen. As two of the most important women in the world in their time, both of them listened and counselled and thus carried the burden of terrible secrets and ideas. How must it feel to be the custodian of the world’s secrets, holding knowledge, like the Pythia?
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Canadian artist Amanta Scott with encaustic painting Medusa’s Rage — Impressions of Autumn Peltier, in private collection, Toronto
“When there is no clean water left, our tears will fall as oil.” — Autumn Peltier
Medusa is known as the terrifying woman with snakes for hair whose sheer rage can turn a person to stone just for looking at her. What made Medusa so angry? Because she was not consulted. Because her rights were denied.
Autumn Peltier, an Indigenous environmental activist, has been drawing global attention to the lack of safe drinking water in numerous Indigenous communities across Canada.
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Enjoying the view of the harbour in Hong Kong
Canadian Artist Amanta Scott with encaustic paintings in her solo exhibition Eyeing Medusa at Orillia Museum of Art & History, 2023
Canadian Artist Amanta Scott with five encaustic paintings in her solo exhibition Eyeing Medusa at Orillia Museum of Art & History, 2023
Canadian artist, Amanta Scott polishes her encaustic painting Persephone — Impression of Kim Bok-Dong for her solo exhibition Eyeing Medusa at Orillia Museum of Art & History, 2023
Canadian Artist Amanta Scott with encaustic painting Themis — Impression of Katerina Sakellaropoulou, a work which triggered Amanta’s research and discovery of her own astonishing ancestry.
Canadian artist Amanta Scott with flowers for her solo exhibition, Eyeing Medusa, an installation of encaustic paintings and videos at Orillia Museum of Art & History, 2023
viewing Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl’s painting “Sic transit” in Rome
Amanta Scott views Bernini’s sculpture Apollo and Daphne— a beautiful and harrowing work at the Borghese Gallery in Rome
Viewing Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Crucifixion of Saint Wilgefortis at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice. This is one of the works that triggered me to create Eyeing Medusa.
Canadian Artist Amanta Scott works on an encaustic painting in her studio
Workshop participant explains her creation with Canadian artist, Amanta Scott’s interactive Stories in a Suitcase installation, in Kirkland Lake, Ontario
Three encaustic paintings by Canadian Artist Amanta Scott, on the walls of her studio
A visitor interacts with Canadian Artist Amanta Scott and her prison bed installation 15 Minutes of Fame, for World Refugee Day event, hosted by UNHCR
Canadian Artist Amanta Scott directs and accompanies an intercultural choir of seniors singing in six languages
Canadian artist, Amanta Scott walking on eggshells during her performance with her work Shellshock, which featured a 35-voice choir, 8 dancers, an encaustic sculpture installation and 120-dozen eggshells with which the performers interacted.
polishing her encaustic painting Pythia Paused — Impression of Queen Elizabeth II