Paul Scott Blue and White Horizons - The Scottish Gallery

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Paul Scott, born 1953, lives and works in rural Cumbria. He has been a professional artist for over twenty fiveyears. His research activity has meant an irregular but ongoing association with Universities, Research Centres,Museums and Art Galleries in a variety of contexts. Paul makes artwork for exhibition and to commission,whilst also juggling residencies, writing, curating, teaching and other projects. In 2010 he was awarded PhD byManchester Metropolitan University and in August 2011, took up a post as Professor 2 at Oslo National Academyof the Arts (KHiO) Norway.“Paul Scott works at his own political stance in the ceramics he produces. His work unfolds slowly. There issomething beguilingly disarming about his traditional blue and white ware with which he works; something thatwrong-foots us. By choosing to work with industrially produced blue and white ware he has elected to underminethe cosiness, the decorative conceit that these ware can represent. But the commentary he makes is necessarilymore complex. The history and the origins of blue and white wares cannot be ignored, nor can the current stateof its production. Taking the traditional blue and white plate as his starting point Scott has manipulated it to giveit his own political charge. Scott chooses his canvas carefully. The imagery of ruralism sits there on the blue andwhite plates and, just like the Lake District itself, it blanks out the low flying jets, the slag heaps, the threat ofnuclear fallout and the dangers of foot and mouth disease. To this Scott adds imagery or erases parts of it. Theseacute alterations and additions are the backbone of his work.” Ceramic Review, Issue 244 July/August 2010Work in Public Collections include:Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonNational Museum of Art Architecture and Design, OsloMuseum of Art and Design New YorkThe Potteries Museum, Stoke on TrentStatens Konstråd (National Public Art Council, Sweden)Shipley Art Gallery, GatesheadDanish Arts Foundation, CopenhagenNordenfjeldske Kunstinustrimuseum (National Museum Decorative Arts) Trondheim, NorwayManchester City Art GalleryMuseum Bellerive, Collection of Decorative Arts, ZurichNational Museum, Stockholm Sweden,Museum Ariana Geneva SwitzerlandYork City Museum and Art GalleryTullie House, Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery
Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s) Landscape with Fence and Wind Turbine, 2012, 23 diameter x 3.5 cms(Danish earthenware plate)
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