Paul Scott

Feb

2019

The Special Relationship, Staffordshire and the US

In December 2018, Arts Council England confirmed grant support for Paul’s research The Special Relationship, Staffordshire and the US. The project builds on Alturas funded New American Scenery research in the United States since 2015. It involves investigations into Staffordshire archives of original transferware material at Wedgwood, the Spode Museum Trust, Burleigh and the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.

Paul will also develop a New American Scenery related exhibition for UK tour from 2020. The show will open on 4 March 2020 at the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle.

Sep

2018

NEWS: Paul Scott featured in Artsy Article

The Centuries-Old Japanese Tradition of Mending Broken Ceramics with Gold by Casey Lesser

“Some four or five centuries ago in Japan, a lavish technique emerged for repairing broken ceramics. Artisans began using lacquer and gold pigment to put shattered vessels back together. This tradition, known as kintsugi, meaning “golden seams” (or kintsukuroi, “golden repair”), is still going strong.”

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Jun

2018

NEWS: Fukushima No. 5 on Design Museum of Trondheim Limited Tote

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Fukushima No:5 Tote

‘Cumbrian Blue(s) Fukushima No:5’ on a limited edition bag for sale at the Design Museum Trondheim shop.

FROM PAUL:

“I am interested in the way images are disseminated by moving between different media and so I was happy when @designmuseumtrondheim proposed printing an image of ‘Cumbrian Blue(s) Fukushima No:5’ (in their collection) on a limited edition bag for sale in the museum shop. This coincides with an exhibition celebrating the museum’s 125th anniversary… 125 objects from their collection have been chosen by 125 people from outside the museum… ‘The 125 choices not only represent the things themselves but 125 new pairs of eyes and 125 new stories about the collection’s place in society. Through these contributions, we gain an insight into what the objects do to people’…. exhibition runs until 28 August 2018…

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Mar

2017

Home Truths at PEER

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s) Refugee Series No:1

A collection of works by Paul Scott on view at PEER Friday 3 March to Saturday 22 April 2017.

PEER, which is located at 97-99 Hoxton Street, London, is a national portfolio organisation of Arts Council England.

FROM PEER:
“Scott not only engages with the dense lexicon of meaning that can be mined from the designs and images, but also considers the production of the objects themselves and the role that they have played in an industrialised capitalist society.”

“British artist Paul Scott’s latest exhibition Home Truths at PEER (March 3 – April 22, 2017) features his detailed etched imagery and collaged ceramics replacing the expected pastoral scenes with those of the brutal honesty humanitarian crisis resulting from Syria’s six year civil war.”

“In creating works from blue and white transfer-ware, which historically has been industrially produced and available to the general public, he aims to elucidate the reality of the Syrian crisis by bringing the narrative into everyday life.”

Click here to read the article.

Oct

2016

A Flower Bed for Alice at Skælskør Sculpture Park

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), A Flowerbed for Alice

Artwork produced for Alice in Wonderland, symposium at Guldagergaard International Ceramice Research Center and Sculpture Park. Installed October 2016.

Click here to view images of A Flower Bed for Alice.

Click here to learn more about the symposium.

Oct

2016

Transference: Transfer Printing and Contemporary Ceramics

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Grain Silo

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s) American Scenery Clouds No:1 (After Cadre and Lisa)

October 7 through November 27, 2016
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

A selection of Cumbrian Blue(s) artworks are on view at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, from October 7 to November 27, 2016 as part of the exhibition Transference: Transfer Printing and Contemporary Ceramics.

Transference explores how the combination of ceramics and transfer print technology enables the immediacy of printmaking to be joined with the enduring nature of fired clay. The title of this project refers to the transferring of social and political concepts between cultures and across time periods.Click here to learn more.

A 3-day symposium, Technicalities: Meaning in Methods took place on Friday, October 28 through Sunday, October 30. Click here to learn more.

Presented by the Center for Art in Wood and The Clay Studio in conjunction with Craft NOW Philadelphia, the symposium October explored the intersections of traditional and cutting edge techniques used today in the fields of wood and ceramic arts.Symposium speakers included Glenn Adamson, Andrew Raftery and other scholars and artists. Click here to learn more.

Oct

2016

Technicalities: Meaning in Methods at The Clay Studio Philadelphia

Scott's Cumbrian Blue(s), American Scenery, Residual Waste No: 2, In-glaze decal collage, gold lustre, on James Edwards & Son, Stone China, Dalehall, Ironstone platter c.1850, Paul Scott 2015

Friday, October 28 through Sunday, October 30
Symposium and Workshop
A collaborative event between The Clay Studio, The Center for Art in Wood and Craft NOW Philadelphia

The Center for Art in Wood and The Clay Studio jointly presented a symposium from October 28-30, 2016 exploring the intersections of traditional and cutting edge techniques used today in the fields of wood and ceramic arts. The symposium speakers included Glenn Adamson, Charlotte Hodes, Paul Scott, Andrew Raftery and other scholars and artists who were represented in the exhibitions at each institution: Transference: Transfer Pringing in Contemporary Ceramics (on view through November 27, 2016) at The Clay Studio and Wood, Revisited at The Center for Art in Wood. The collaboration was held in conjunction with Craft NOW Philadelphia.

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