For three years Scott Treleavan doggedley assembled the black and white, photocopied zine This is The Salivation Army (196-1999). at first, the incendiary, booklet was a call to arms - for freaks, punks, pagans and queers - and anything in between. Fashioning a movement in the broadest sense, the zine beckoned a gang of lovers, whose contributions fueled the salivation army's self-mythologizing fire.

Scott’s Water’s paintings are inspired by his service in the Canadian Armed Forces (1989-1992) where the gaping void between these young men’s hyped-up expectations and the harsh reality of post-Cold War redundancy was filled with alcohol and anarchic gestures of extreme humiliation and deviance.

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Scott Treleaven graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1996. A noted figure in 90s underground cinema and queer zine circles, the tenets of these early practices continue to inform Treleaven’s conceptual and material choices, with collage functioning as a theoretical fulcrum. In Treleaven’s paintings and photographs the ‘cut-up’ invokes unruly entropic forces; out of the fractures emerge meditations on perception, phenomenology, queer sublimity, utopianism, the aura of handmade objects, and the relocation of abstraction as a site of transcendental, rather than purely formal, traditions.

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Scott Waters was born in Preston, England, and lived in S. Africa before emigrating to Canada. He currently lives in Toronto, and previously served in The Canadian Armed Forces.

To learn more about Scott Waters and his current work, visit his website.