Pub Cultures: Meet Amy Scott-Pillow, Artist for The Raven and Bine
Amy is a multidisciplinary artist whose work navigates the threshold between past and present, seen and unseen. She explores social connection through a lens of English heritage, historic custom, and the boundaries—both real and imagined—that define and divide us. Fences, walls, and gates serve as recurring motifs, symbolising the fragile yet persistent barriers between worlds.
Amy’s practice often engages with echoes of her departed family, crafting spaces where memory and history converge. She is drawn to the un-authored marks of long-forgotten craftspeople, their presence lingering in the objects and structures they left behind. Through her work, Amy invites reflection on the spaces we inhabit, the borders we construct, and the possibility of passage between them.
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For pub cultures I collaborated with the Raven and Bine pub, engaging patrons through a creative writing bonus round during the weekly pub quiz. Participants wrote imaginative stories inspired by pub objects, which I later edited and transformed into 12 unique screen-printed beermats. Each mat featured artwork and a short story, celebrating storytelling traditions in pub culture. The mats were distributed in the pub and displayed in framed installations. The project highlights community creativity and the blending of contemporary art with everyday social spaces.
I’ve just made this Substack post about the project in more detail which can be added too for further interest -Find out more about Amy’s Pub Cultures Project
