Scott Barrett

Scott Barrett
Oceanside, California, USA

STATEMENT

My work operates on a level of stream of consciousness and unstructured, instinctual brow. Working and deconstructing with found paper ephemera, my collages are equally informed by mood and influence of the human condition. The wavering unpredictability of what results will become, is a niche that extends to all facets of my creative processes.

BIO

Scott Barrett / Xun Gloom is an artist born and thus remained in California his entire life.

Drawn to the arts at an early age, creative expression has been the only constant hand to have led him through decades of introversion.

Working since the early 2000s, his twenties and thirties were spent making music primarily with his band, Sick Balloons. Casual involvement in the band’s art direction led to creating analog collage work in his spare time.

In 2020, during the beginning of the worldwide pandemic, he found himself digging into the crevices of his imagination and funneling his energy back into art, full time.

The name Xun Gloom is indebted in part to the ancient Chinese wind
instrument, Xun, once a symbol associated with “respectable hermits” and “heroes at the end of their strength”. Gloom comes aptly quipped at a time when we are all struggling with inner and outmost turmoil. Art becomes the expressionist’s escape.

Currently he is working on a certificate in Digital Design, with inductions into a few local Zine Libraries.

He lives with his partner, Elissa, and their dog, Beans.

ARTIST CONTACT

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