About

Libby Scarlett (b. Manchester, UK, 1986) is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer and educator based in London, UK.

Interested in transformation through the lens of the everyday, sets of circumstances are created to explore reflection and change through video, intervention, text, diagrams, and publication. By designing experiments, others are invited to also test out experiencing something familiar anew.

Her work currently studies contemporary labour, particularly that which is precarious: proposing ways to unpick and thereby understand more fully, come together/feel less alone, and do differently in aim of bringing about affect through expanded knowledge and community.

‘Couldn’t we be doing this differently?’ – Kae Tempest, People’s Faces

She has an MA from University College London (Art and Design in Education, 2022) and a BA from Manchester School of Art (Design and Art Direction, 2009).

Studio Tej is an artist-architect duo co-founded with Kathryn Timmins (2010-present). They explore small-scale urban interventions to promote interaction with public space.

Selected exhibitions

Fluxus Video Prize - Fluxus Museum, Paros (2024) - upcoming (summer 2024)
Strelnikov's Glasses and Other Stories - Hong Kong Arts Centre (2023)
Something Other Live: On Circularity - Live Art Development Agency, London (2020)
Warrington Contemporary - Warrington (2020)
Time after [( )] after Time - The Briggait, Glasgow (2019)
Strelnikov's Glasses and Other Stories - HOME, Manchester (2017)
Microprovocations (Studio Tej) - Central YMCA, London (2016)
Put Your Feet on the Ground - Disposed, Salzburg (2016)
PRESENT003 - Protein Gallery, London (2016)
Mit de Data: Source Materials Visualised - New York Center for Book Arts, New York (2015)
An Overview of Small Occurrences - Women's Studio Workshop, New York (2014)
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here - New York Center for Book Arts, New York; John Rylands Library, Manchester; The Cambridge Arts Council, Massachusetts (2013)
European Artist Book Awards (ABOT) - Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague (2012); International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (2012); Museum for Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna (2011)

funding / residencies / awards

a-n Artist Bursary (2022-23)
Arts Council England - Emergency Relief Funding (2020)
Marpha Foundation Artist in Residence, Nepal (2019)
a-n Artist Bursary to attend Marina Abramović’s Cleaning the House workshop (2019)
Arts Council England - DYCP Funding (2018)
StudioBook - Mark Devereux Projects, Manchester (2017)
Ahvaland Artist in Residence - Åland Islands, Finland (2016)
Arts Council England - Artist's International Development Fund Award (2016)
Bundeskanzleramt Österreich Artist in Residence - Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (2016)
Women’s Studio Workshop Art-in-Education Artist book residency, New York, USA (2014)
National Endowment for the Arts grant (2014)
Publication of the year - Think Tank awards (2012)
Honourable Mention - European Artist Book Awards (2011)
Hot Bed Press Artist in Residence (Parlour Press), Manchester, UK (2011)
Warrington Arts Grant (2011)
The Phil Thomas Foundation Grant (2010)
An Inventory of Northern Extremes - Droog Lab, Amsterdam (2010)

collections