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Parallel Worlds

'Parallel Worlds' gathers the editions from Andrew Scott's 2025 London show with Stowe Gallery, in small hand-finished and larger collector's formats. Editions such as 'Drip', 'Cast' and the diptych 'Telephone' sit alongside collector's editions of 'Fold' and 'Slide', with 'Splash', a white paint-finished edition from late 2024, completing the group.

All Parallel Worlds Works By Andrew Scott (9)

Significance & Analysis

'Parallel Worlds' marks the point where Scott's frame experiments stopped being only about breaking things. The show ran from 31 July to 12 August 2025 at 340 Kings Road in Chelsea, the largest group of his work yet shown in person, with nearly 20 new pieces also sold online. Scott summed up the new body of work as "manipulating the paper, reconstructing the frame into new shapes, and adding sculptural elements to extend the works beyond the frame."

Across two frames

'Telephone' shows the idea most directly: a diptych of two framed canvases joined by string. Scott has said that before his first frame experiment, his initial idea was "to have subjects interacting across frames", and he returned to it in 2024 with a run of diptychs. 'Homerun' revisits his early broken-glass method with a twist, leaving an opening in the glass where the ball has passed through. 'Fold' started as a small prototype; Scott tested every idea at a reduced scale before making the larger work.

The collector's editions

Alongside the small editions, the show offered larger collector's editions. 'Fold' and 'Slide' were issued at 87 x 62.5 cm, and 'Slide' also in an XL size of 87 x 122 cm in an edition of just five. 'Slide' and 'Balloon' had sold out before the show closed. 'Splash' came first: released in December 2024, it grew out of Scott's experiments with shadow-box frames and, like 'Drip', is finished by hand with white paint.

Before and after

The show followed Frame of Mind (2024), an online release, and moved its paper and frame-shaping ideas into three dimensions. Afterwards Scott pushed the sculptural side further. The Glass Blower editions of 2026 reworked an original made for this show, with hand-blown glass rising from the frame, and The Beyond Collection (2026) sent its characters past the frame's outer edge through notched woodcuts.

How Many Copies of Each Parallel Worlds Edition Exist?

'Drip', 'Cast', 'Homerun' and the smaller 'Fold' are editions of 250, 'Drip' has 25 artist's proofs. 'Telephone' is an edition of 100, and 'Balloon' and 'Stepping Stone' are editions of 25. The 'Fold' and 'Slide' collector's editions are 25 plus five artist's proofs each at 87 x 62.5 cm, and the 'Slide' XL is five plus two artist's proofs at 87 x 122 cm. 'Splash' is 250 plus 25 artist's proofs.

How Are Parallel Worlds Editions Signed?

Every edition is signed and numbered on the reverse. All were published by Stowe Gallery and sold framed.

Why Do No Two Copies Look Exactly the Same?

Because each one is finished by hand after printing. 'Drip' is a print on canvas with paint added by hand, so the splashes vary from copy to copy. 'Slide' has a frame broken by hand for every copy, so the break differs each time, in both the collector's and XL sizes.