Zoë Scutts

Zoë Scutts is a designer and maker whose practice explores the intersection of language, materiality, and form. Focusing on the synergy between two and three dimensional media, she examines how words can be experienced through touch, structure, and space.
Her fascination with linguistics and material processes reveals typography as both medium and message. With a background in graphic design, Scutts's work moves fluidly from printed matter to sculptural form. She uses making as her voice. A culmination of expressions through her hands, where clay, glass, and text converge to communicate what words alone cannot.
Her practice deconstructs and liberates text from conventional meaning, returning to the tactile foundations of learning and communication.
Scutts's research is grounded in minimalist principles, emphasizing precision, composition and material integrity. Employing industrial and digital techniques (extrusion, laser cutting and vacuum forming) she creates works that are visually restrained yet conceptually layered, combining industrial precision with personal intimacy. Influences include Bruno Munari, John Cage, and the Concrete Poets, whose approaches to chance, play, and simplicity i nform her thinking.

Motherhood profoundly shapes her creative perspective, reawakening curiosity and sensory awareness through the eyes of a child. In an age dominated by digital immediacy and visual noise, Scutts seeks to reclaim tactility and slowness, using analogue processes to engage all the senses. Her work invites quiet contemplation. Appointing objects that are honest, familiar and inclusive in their invitation to connect