Dr Helen Scott is Curator of Fine Art at the City Art Centre, part of Museums & Galleries Edinburgh (City of Edinburgh Council). She previously worked for the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust, having studied Art History at the University of St Andrews. As a curator, she specialises in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Scottish art, contemporary Scottish art, and British Modernism. She has written for a variety of art-historical publications and is the author of the monographs Edwin G. Lucas: An Individual Eye (2018), Mary Cameron: Life in Paint (2019) and Adam Bruce Thomson: The Quiet Path (2024).

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  • 'There were three maidens pu'd a flower (by the bonnie banks o' Fordie)'
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    Charles H. Mackie: Colour and Light (15 May – 10 October 2021)

    12 artworks curated by Helen Scott, Curator of Art, City Art Centre

  • The Entry of George IV into Edinburgh from the Calton Hill, 1822
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    Art Unlocked: City Art Centre

    5 artworks curated by Helen Scott, Curator of Art, City Art Centre

  • Moorland
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    National Treasure: The Scottish Modern Arts Association (21 May - 16 October 2022)

    15 artworks curated by Helen Scott, Curator of Art, City Art Centre

  • Conversations Part I
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    Incoming: New Acquisitions at the City Art Centre (2 October 2021 - 28 May 2023)

    15 artworks curated by Helen Scott, Curator of Art, City Art Centre

  • Villa Gotte Garden
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    Bright Shadows: Scottish Art in the 1920s (12 September 2020 - 27 June 2021)

    15 artworks curated by Helen Scott, Curator of Art, City Art Centre

  • Katherine Hall of Dunglass (d.1745)
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    The Italian Connection (7 September 2019 – 23 August 2020)

    14 artworks curated by Helen Scott, Curator of Art, City Art Centre