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Scottee is an artist and writer from Kentish Town, North London.

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His early work has often been acknowledged as controversial, throwing cake at Rihanna as part of an X Factor performance and spitting milkshake over Nick Grimshaw. [1] 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. [2]

More recently, Scottee has turned to creating activist artworks and projects with communities across the UK and Ireland. These have included working with his grandfather to tackle ageism, [3] public artwork in Southend addressing queer trauma, [4] Hamburger Queen - a talent show for fat people exploring fat activism, [5] establishing Peterborough Pride, [6] participant led dance show Fat Blokes [7] and stage show Class [8] looking at poverty and class system in the UK

Scottee has written on subjects for newspapers such as The Guardian , i-D Magazine and Global Citizen [9] 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." [10]

He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends after first appearing on the programme on 18 December 2012., [11] he has also written columns and presented for Front Row and Cultural Front Line. In 2020 Scottee became the host of After The Tone podcast, [12] first published in August that year.

From 2013 to 2016, Scottee was Associate Artist at Roundhouse, London. [13] In 2017 Scottee became Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, University of London [14] and 2018 he became an Associate Artist at HOME, Manchester. From 2017 to 2023, he was the Artistic Director of Scottee & Friends Ltd., which he established with Executive Producer Molly Nicholson [15] .

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Early life

Scottee was born on Queens Crescent, Kentish Town West Estate. He was expelled from school aged 14 [20] after which he never returned to education. He has no formal training or qualifications.

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  1. ↑ "Homepage". Scottee. Archived from the original on January 31, 2014. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Scottee interview - Cabaret - Time Out london". Timeout.com. 2010-01-18. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  3. ↑ "Vice - Meet 'The Real Liam Gallagher', the 79-Year-Old Irish Artist Tackling Ageism in the Art World". vice.com. 2014-05-26. Retrieved 2014-05-26.
  4. ↑ "Huck - What happens when you ask your community if it's homophobic". huckmagazine.com. 2017-03-03. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
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  12. ↑ TONE, AFTER THE. "AFTER THE TONE". Google Podcasts. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
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  14. ↑ "Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre – Autumn 2017". bbk.ac.uk. 2017-10-06. Retrieved 2017-10-06.
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