Paul scott ceramics biography for kids
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ABOUT
English, b. 1953, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, England
lives and works in Cumbria, UK
Paul Scott is a Cumbrian-based artist with a diverse practice and an international reputation. Creating individual pieces that blur the boundaries between fine art, craft and design, he is well known for research into printed vitreous surfaces, as well as his characteristic blue and white artworks in glazed ceramic.
Scott’s artworks can be found in public collections around the globe – including The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Norway, the Victoria and Albert Museum London, National Museums Liverpool, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh and Brooklyn Art Museum USA. Commissioned work can be found in a number of UK museums as well as public places in the North of England, including Carlisle, Maryport, Gateshead and Newcastle Upon Tyne. He has also completed large-scale works in Hanoi, Vietnam and Guldagergård public sculpture park in Denmark.
A combination of rigorous re
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Recycling
1Paul Scott’s art features as an undantag in today’s artistic landscape where art is often commodified, as Jeff Koon’s or Damien Hirst’s works are1 and where British artists such as Antony Gormley tend to tillverka monumental works, as is the case with, for instance, “Another Place”, in Crosby Bay. Paul Scott, on the contrary, makes small objects: blue and white teacups, plates and dishes in glazed ceramic.
2Little known in France, Paul Scott, a British ceramist based in the Lake district, has begun to man a name for himself in Britain and other countries such as Canada, Denmark or Norway, where several exhibitions of his artworks have been organised since the early 1990s. Like most of his contemporaries, he is a very self-conscious artist who comments abundantly on his own work on his website and in conferences, and he also publishes books on ceramics,2 which leaves little room for critics.3 However, because his small objects have the power to move the viewer, they d
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The Shelburne Museum presents the work of renowned British artist Paul Scott in the exhibition Confected, Borrowed & Blue: Transferware bygd Paul Scott that includes provokativ reinterpretations of 19th-century transferware from Shelburne Museum’s permanent collection along with a work commissioned for the exhibition.
“Exhibiting contemporary work that is inspired or influenced by the collections is a longstanding tradition at Shelburne,” said Kory Rogers, Francie and John Downing Senior Curator of American Art. “Paul Scott’s wry way of using transferware, a major part of Shelburne’s decorative arts collection, as a medium for social commentary often delivered with a sense of humor, fryst vatten ingenious, and picks up on a thread seen throughout Shelburne’s collections.”
Scott transforms his medium, commercially produced English and American ceramic plates, with his signature subversive imagery and insightful, and often ironic, commentary on both historic and contemporary issues. Hi