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🍄 Mark Scott-Wood 🍄
@markscottwood.bsky.social
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dilettante at best. art making, mostly ceramic and cardboard, in a world of contraries. bad at most video games. lacks dopamine. content may vary. that's it. that's the biography, for now, for ever, for #norwich

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Mamdani stands behind a desk at The White House. Trump is sitting next to him with his head turned looking up to Mamdani. Trump is beaming with utter joy. Socialism, huh!
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Our local QD store is closing down and I'm utterly devastated so I bought myself a commemorative bag for life
A bright red bag for life with white printed text reading 'I got carried away at QD' on the side
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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👀 a sneaky peek at some new autumnal treats 🍄

Domes of Amanita, 2025

Glazed ceramic

#autumn #amanita #oak #ceramic #forage
Seven small round shiny red domes with white spots nestle snuggly amongst some crunchy brown fallen oak leaves. These objects fit perfectly in the palm of your hand.
October 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Describe yourself as a building
A single storey dwelling that's painted a dark sandy colour with dark green trim. In the far left corner of the front yard of the home there's a blue car hidden behind a mass of hoarded clutter. To the right of the house a person stands next to the clutter which is haphazardly stacked a foot or two higher than they are.
April 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Congrats to MYINBOX for the 10k
A screenshot of my inbox email count which was at 10,003 emails. It's now at 10,400. Coincidentally, there's an ongoing shortage of prescription methylphenidate in the area.
April 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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BOO! GOTHY LIZ KENDOLL
A horrifying chimera - the body of Gothy Kendoll with the head of Liz Kendall RUN!
March 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Well the final moving studio day has arrived. A cancellation meant my afternoon slot got shifted to a spontaneous morning flustered van pack, which actually worked out better as I didn't get to spend the morning anxiously pacing the corridors. House is a bloody tip now. Thots & players please 🙏
The back of a removal van being loaded up with boxes from my studio. This van is bigger than my house! My front room at home stacked to the ceiling with crates and cardboard boxes from the studio. Just out of shot is the sofa now occupied by all my plants that have just been moved.
February 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Whimsy Beans :)

#norwich #NR3
A dark green junction box on the street with the words 'Whimsy Beans' followed by a smiley face scrawled on the top of it in thick white paint. The 'W' has two large dribbles, one of which has made it all the way down the front of the box and onto the ground.
February 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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post your fav Pokémon, wrong answers only
Chorlton the Happiness Dragon stands next to a small tree with his arms outstretched
February 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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I know what I saw
A sculpture of a horned brown paper head on an upright branch stands on a large table in the artist's well-stocked and chaotic studio.
February 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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What's up?
This is an image from my studio which I'm currently packing up as the building is due for demolition. I'm holding up a section of brick wall made out of empty boxes and layerd with brown paper. I'm holding it up just in front of my face trying to recreate the graffiti I remembered seeing a lot as a child. It depicted a bald-headed man (sometimes having a few hairs) with a prominent nose peeking over a wall with his fingers clutching the top of the wall either side of his head and would include the text 'wot? no chads'. I did some research and due diligence and it turns out it possibly originates back to World War 2 and would use the text 'Kilroy was here'. As far as I'm aware both versions aren't considered offensive. I must also add I wasn't a child during WW2. At the bottom my image is the text 'Wot? No professional art handlers'
February 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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From the MSW archives:

painting/doodle/sketch

c. sometime in the late 2000s

string, pencil, paint, tea on board
A painting of an egg-shaped white head with blue eyes. It's a childlike doodle outlined with string. It has pointy teeth and a rainbow coming out of the back of its head. The white background is stained with tea.
February 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Girl, we gotta go now
A set of sparsely filled shelves in my studio is surrounded by parts of broken and unfinished cardboard sculptures. There are 6 foot long tree branches, plinths and boxes all made out of cardboard and brown paper. On the top shelf there is a bust of a green witch. There is wall visible where other shelves used to be.
February 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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I found some floor
An image showing a set of blue shelves with boxes and sculptures mostly made out of cardboard and brown paper. There is grey carpet.
February 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Today's moving out of the studio vibes
A tall white male mannequin leans against an open rear door of a large transit van
February 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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I found my old childhood desk in my studio clearing ups. I liked sharks, the Moon, L7 and Vulcan Bombers
A doodle of a shark that spells out 'Mark'. The 'M' forms its teeth. It's been coloured in with blue paint. A cresent moon with a face and flames drawn with a Tippex pen. An 'L' and a '7' drawn with a Tippex pen like the skeletal fingers of the L7 logo. An Avro Vulcan strategic bomber drawn with a black biro.
January 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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So the studio exodus begins aka I really hate moving
I'm standing on a chair holding up a crudely appliqued banner made from an old bed sheet and old t-shirts with the words "this is merely a distraction from the inevitable" on the front. The wall behind me is bright yellow.
January 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Career status update:
A flat oval cardboard pendant is being held up. It has a gold glittery egde with a stained and faded black and white image of a witch in the centre. It is about the size of a very big hand. The back of a flat oval cardboard pendant is being held up. It has a gold glittery egde with a stained and faded black and white image of some text in the centre. The text reads "In October 2010 the artist Mark Scott-Wood cast a spell to bring him success in his career... Something went wrong" It is about the size of a very big hand.
January 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
An image of bare-chested man, who I'm 96% sure is Elvis, lays back on a bed. He is flanked by two grey-skinned aliens and a smaller green alien. They are conducting, shall we say, some experiments on him. He looks like he's okay with it, but is he?
January 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The Log Lady cradles a log whilst shedding a tear. In this image she has the head of a papier-mâché witch.
January 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Medieval emoticon$ on ye slab
A series of slip trailed terracotta letters and icons on a plaster slab. However, it's possible not all of them are medieval.
January 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Just hoarding and ignoring open tabs of artist opportunities in multiple discarded windows because imposter syndrome arrived like...
An image of someone taking part in a street parade. They might be dressed as Mickey Mouse but the outfit is definitely not an officially licensed one so I can be sure.
January 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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RIP OUTPOST Studios, Norwich 2010 - 2025
The image shows Gildengate House, a large dilapidated office block, that makes up part of Anglia Square in Norwich, UK. Five storeys of the building is currently being used as studios by over 85 artists based in and around the area and run by OUTPOST, an artist led organisation. The Square has recently been purchased by the local council is demolition work is due to start early next year.
December 20, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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From the MSW archives:

Musky Stang (with small poster), 2017

pulped cardboard, varnish, phosphorescent pigment, string, burnt ceramic, feathers, patchouli oil, laser print.

240mm x 160mm x 15mm
Here is a small poster depicting a healing wound on a tree where a large branch has been cut off the main trunk. The developing wound wood is quite thick suggesting that the branch was removed many years previously. The image has been slightly glitched. There is a map pin that has been painted ochre pinned in the top left hand corner. From this pin a small twig is hanging. The twig has two feathers from a pheasant attached to it by light brown twine. Each feather has two burnt terracotta beads threaded over their quills. These beads have been dowsed with patchouli oil. The twig is made from pulped cardboard.
December 10, 2024 at 9:01 AM
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From the MSW archives:

'Untitled', 2021

I don't really know what this is. Sometimes I just have to make a thing. This is one of those things.

Stained and glazed terracotta.
A dome of unglazed terracotta stained the colours of the M81 woodland camouflage disruptive pattern. On the dome is another smaller glazed purple dome. This sits next to a slightly larger glazed white doughnut shape with a mother-of-pearl lustre. Below these features a grin of bright reddish orange lava-like ceramic beams menacingly across the lower part of the camouflaged dome.
December 8, 2024 at 9:59 PM