Scottee


Scottee is an artist and writer from Kentish Town, North London
His work has often been controversial, throwing cake at Rihanna as part of an X Factor performance and spitting milkshake over Nick Grimshaw. On one occasion the police arrived at one performance of "Mess" to investigate a suspected breach of public indecency laws. The police found no evidence of illegal activity.
More recently, Scottee has turned to creating activist artworks and projects with communities. These have included working with his grandfather to tackle ageism, public artwork in Southend addressing queer trauma and Hamburger Queen - a talent show for fat people exploring fat activism
He has written on subjects including the arts, attitudes to obesity, gay marriage and debt for newspapers and websites such as The Guardian, i-D Magazine and Huffington Post. In a piece in The Guardian expressing concerns about pay and the problems of working in the arts industry he characterises it as; "The arts are essentially a namby-pamby life of stealing Wi-Fi, cheap coffee, waiting tables and overpriced weekend workshops in improvisation that leaves you, at times, financially and mentally unstable."
He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends after first appearing on the programme on 18 December 2012., he has also written columns and presented for Front Row and Cultural Front Line.
From 2013 - 2016 Scottee was Associate Artist at Roundhouse, London.
In 2017 Scottee became Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, University of London

Theatre Shows

Scottee was born in Queens Crescent on the Kentish Town West Estate. He was expelled from school aged 14 after which he never returned to education. He has no formal training or qualifications.

Early career

Scottee made his name as part of several party organising crews including, but not exclusively, Kashpoint and Anti-Social.