Rivers Flow/Artists Connect,
end Sept 2024
In Rivers Flow / Artists Connect, American artists from the 1820s to the present day explore and illuminate our profound, symbiotic relationship with significant rivers across the globe, from the Hudson and the Susquehanna to the Indus and the Seine.
Our America/Whose America?
end April 2024
Our America, Whose America presents a dialogue between contemporary artists and a collection of commercially produced ceramics. This collection of historical objects, collected across the span of several years by Founding Director Leslie Ferrin, is in the form of plates, souvenirs, and figurines from the early 19th through mid-20th centuries.
Confected, Borrowed & Blue: Transferware
end October 2020
This show is the first in a planned series of “interventions,” in which contemporary artists respond to Shelburne Museum’s outstanding collections. Plates, platters, and jugs created by Scott, including a special commission exploring the role of the sugar industry in the Museum’s founding are displayed alongside historical ceramics in the Variety Unit, sparking dialogue between past and present.
Illustrated lecture by Curator Kory Rogers about Shelburne Museum’s mammoth jug room…
An artwork & narrative. The development of Cumbrian Blue(s) artworks, Tracing an artistic journey through transferware…. Hand bound by Roger Grech, in full cloth housed in a bespoke solander box.
Collages, paper cuts, prints and drawings… More details here:
A Cumbrian Blue(s), The Book sampler/prospectus was published in June 2024 can be viewed here
Contem’Plate & Plates with Purpose
end April 2024
Exhibition in support of Ukraine two years ago, Messums Org have once again partnered with the two charities, David Nott Foundation and Hope and Homes for Children. It is the hope that the motivations of ‘Plates with Purpose’, and the funding it will raise, will begin a discussion to develop a world where such charities are needed less and less in the sphere of conflict
In this exhibition, artist Paul Scott assesses the American landscape from a contemporary approach, one that deals with issues of globalization, energy generation and consumption, capitalism, and immigration, as well as the human impact on the environment.
Pearlware Polish and Privilege at LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
Paul Scott transforms factory-made tableware with subversive imagery and commentary. He replicates traditional porcelain designs developed by late 18th century English artisans, such as the Willow pattern or Spode’s Blue Italian. These early ornamentations included appropriated motifs copied from hand-painted blue and white wares imported from China, and were mass-produced using printed glaze transfers applied on porcelain and pearlware blanks.
Contemporary artist gives centuries old ceramics a modern twist
Cumbrian Blue(s) showcases the ceramic work of artist Paul Scott, whose familiar looking blue and white plates subvert the traditional tableware motifs with images from modern day life. This exhibition at Blackwell – the Arts & Crafts house in Bowness-on-Windermere features pieces created during the last 20 years and includes new designs in response to the contemporary Cumbrian landscape.
Exhibition runs from 21 October 2022 – 2 January 2023
New American Scenery at RISD Museum, Providence, USA
RISD Raid the Icebox Now
