BIO & CV
Cassandra Scott-Finn is an interdisciplinary artist based on Bundjalung Country (Byron Bay). Grounded in contemplative practice, she approaches attention as a material, using sustained observation and embodied encounter as ways of working with place. Her practice explores expanded photography, ecological authorship and human–more-than-human entanglement, examining relationships between body, technology and environment.
Working across expanded photography, kinetic sculpture, installation, painting, hand-developed 16mm film and performance, Scott-Finn creates works that emerge through immersion and process. Her kinetic sculptures operate as “open-eye meditation apparatuses,” inviting sustained attention while responding to the elemental conditions of their surroundings.
Raised an only child in remote north-east Victoria, she grew up inside the bush. The living landscape was her earliest companion and continues to shape her practice. She works with stone, light, water and mirrored stainless steel. Elemental forces, body, time and site belong to the same material field. Through site-based research and experimental processes, she creates conditions in which environmental forces become active participants in making the work. Increasingly, her practice relinquishes artistic control and allows agency to shift toward the environment, moving from extraction toward collaboration.
Scott-Finn studied Sculpture and Spatial Practice at RMIT University and contemplative science at the Nalanda Institute, New York. Her work has been commissioned by the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) for Dark Mofo. She has received Highly Commended recognition at Sculpture at Scenic World and the Galah Regional Photography Prize, and has been selected as a finalist in the Bowness Photography Prize, National Photographic Portrait Prize, Olive Cotton Award and Australian Life Photography Prize.
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2012 Highly Commended Award, ‘Infinity?’, Sculptures at Scenic World, Blue Mountains, NSW.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2024
Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina, NSW
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2026
Lone Goat Gallery, Byron Bay, NSW
The Forest Pavilion, Byron Bay, NSW
Ninbella Gallery, Byron Bay, NSW
2025
Art Alchemy, Byron Bay, NSW
Byron Writers Festival, Byron Bay, NSW
Byron School of Art, Byron Bay, NSW
2023
Impact Gallery, Byron Bay, NSW
2019
BAM Pop-Up Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
Awards & Prizes:
2024
Finalist, Australian Life Photography Prize, Sydney, NSW
2023
Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize, Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh), Melbourne, VIC
Highly Commended, Galah Regional Photography Prize, Murwillumbah, NSW
Finalist, Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW
Finalist, National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Semi-Finalist, Head On Photo Awards, Sydney, NSW
2022
Finalist, Small Sculpture Prize, Mullumbimby, NSW
Semi-Finalist, Head On Photo Awards, Sydney, NSW
2021
Winner, SOMA Art Prize, Byron Bay, NSW
2012
Highly Commended, Infinity, Sculpture at Scenic World, Blue Mountains, NSW
2009
Finalist, Australians in New York Fashion Foundation
Grants:
2020
Arts U Grant, Regional Arts Development Grant, NSW
COMMISSIONs:
2015
Commissioned Installation, Depravity of Man, A Monument of Truth, Dark Mofo, MONA, Hobart, TAS
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE:
2025
Creative Producer, Production, Costume & Creative Consultant, WALK ABOUT, Michael Cook, Jan Murphy Gallery, QLD
2024
Creative Producer, Production, Costume & Creative Consultant, Individuation, Michael Cook, Jan Murphy Gallery, QLD
2023
Creative Producer, Production, Costume & Creative Consultant, FAKE, Michael Cook, Jan Murphy Gallery, QLD
2022
Creative Producer, Production, Costume & Creative Consultant, Enculturation, Michael Cook, Jan Murphy Gallery, QLD
Photographer, Climate Council, Northern Rivers Flood Disaster, NSW
2021
Creative Producer, Production, Costume & Creative Consultant, Natures Mortes, Michael Cook, Jan Murphy Gallery, QLD
2020
Creative Producer, Production, Costume & Creative Consultant, Livin’ The Dream, Michael Cook, Jan Murphy Gallery, QLD
Photographer & Art Director, Byron Arts Magazine cover featuring Otis Hope Carey, NSW
2017
Producer, Costume Designer & Creative Consultant, Object, Michael Cook, Jan Murphy Gallery, QLD
2015
Director & Production Designer, The Sound, music video by Sophia Brous
2013
Costume Designer, “90s Music” music video by Kimbra
2010
Costume Designer, ARIA Award-nominated Bird on a Wire music video by Sarah Blasko, directed by KROZM
Costume Designer, Muscle Car feature film, directed by Dwayne Labbé
ARTIST MENTORSHIP:
2026-Present
Artist Mentor- Marchéline Vernétte (ongoing)
Education:
2020
Compassion-Based Resilience Training (CBRT) Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science, New York
Film & Television, SAE Creative Media Institute, Byron Bay, NSW
2015
Sculpture and Spatial Practice, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC
2011
Costume, Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), Sydney, NSW
2010
Costume for Film & Television, TAFE NSW