Project Tag: Cumbrian Blues

04
May
2017
AMERICAN SCENERY

AMERICAN SCENERY

Paul Scott in the USA & American Scenery

January 21–2, 2014
New York Ceramics Fair 2014
Bohemian National Hall, New York

ongoing
selections on exhibit at Project Art, Cummington, MA

Paul Scott is a material based conceptual artist who creates individual ceramic pieces that blur the boundaries between fine art, craft, and design. With a penchant for rescuing cast-offs, he fondly restores them to a new life by using them as a canvas for biting social commentary. His work can be found in public and private collections around the globe.  Scott is a leading authority on printed vitreous surfaces. His research and artwork have been instrumental in showing and encouraging the creative use of this traditional printing technique in contemporary decorative ceramics.

During his recent residencies, lecture tour, and travels in the US, Scott gathered and created a new series, American Scenery, inspired by his travels, observation, and research into American landscape painting, prints, and the subsequent use of those images on ceramic transfer ware. Knowledge drawn from behind-the-scenes tours at museums and collections throughout the North East influences this new work where Scott has applied prints he produced in the USA onto rescued, cast off ceramic plates from the 19th and early 20th centuries. His work tells stories that explore the unexpected movement of images through materials, media, cultures, politics, histories, and geographies,  inviting us to see a whole group of objects in a new way.

Paul Scott is represented by Ferrin Contemporary. Read more and see more…

Paul Scott, “Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s), American Scenery, Fracked No. 2″ 2013, inglaze decal collage, gold luster on ironstone platter (c.1860?), 8.5 x 1”.
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s), American Scenery, Hudson River, Indian Point No. 2″ 2013, inglaze decal collage, gold luster on KT&K S–V China (Knowles Taylor and Knowles, Liverpool, Ohio) platter, c. 1920, 7 x 10”.
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s), American Scenery, Windturbine No. 1″ 2013, Inglaze decal collage, gold luster on Johnson Bros Late Pankurst Co., Ironstone platter c. 1890, 8.75 x 12 x 1”.
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s), American Scenery, Souvenir of Philadelphia” 2013, Inglaze decal collage, gold luster on Souvenir plate England unknown manufacture c. 1900, 8.5 x 1″.
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s), American Scenery, Philadelphia” 2013, Inglaze decal collage, gold luster on feather edged Pearlware plate c. 1830, 14 x 17.25 x 5″. Newark Museum Collection.
Paul Scott, “Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), American Scenery, (Untitled)” 2013, Inglaze decal collage, gold luster on partially erased Lozere Ironstone plate c.1840, 9.75 x 1″.
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s), American Scenery, Fracked No. 1″ 2013, Inglaze decal collage, gold luster on cracked feather edged Pearlware platter c. 1820, 10.5 x 13.75 x 1.25”.
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s), American Scenery, Hudson River, Indian Point No. 2″ 2013, inglaze decal collage, gold luster on KT&K S–V China (Knowles Taylor and Knowles, Liverpool, Ohio) platter, c. 1920, 7 x 10”.
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s), American Scenery, Toll New Jersey Tpke” 2013, inglaze decal collage, gold luster, on Richard Alcock Ironstone platter c. 1875, 8.75 x 12.25″.
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s), Scenery, Oriental, Mahomedan Mosque” 2013, inglaze decal collage, gold luster on transferware plate (manufacture unknown) c. 1820, 9.75 x .75″.
Paul Scott, “Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Scott’s Italian, Costa Concordia No. 2″ 2013, Inglaze decal collage, gold luster on feather edged pearlware plate c. 1820, 9.75”.
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s), Scenery, Palestine” 2013, inglaze decal collage, gold luster on R. Stephenson pearlware plate c. 1830, 6.25 x .5″.
Paul Scott, “Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Scott’s Italian, Costa Concordia No. 3″ 2013, inglaze decal collage, gold luster on feather edged pearlware plate c. 1820, 9.75”.
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s), Scenery, Yanina” 2013, Inglaze decal collage, gold luster on Copeland & Garrett Late Spode, platter c. 1840, 10.75 x 14.75 x 2″.
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s), Italian, Scott’s Italian, Costa Concordia No. 1″ 2013, inglaze decal collage, gold luster on feather edged pearlware plate c. 1820, 10 x 13 x .75”.
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s) Pittsfield Trees (left), Trees (after Spode) (right)” 2013, inglaze decal collage on Restaurant Ware, ~3.5″.
Paul Scott, “Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Trees (After Spode)” 2013, inglaze decal collage on Lauren Mabry wheel thrown whiteware cylinder, ~3.5″
04
May
2017
CUMBRIAN BLUE(S): A Solo Exhibition of Recent Works by Paul Scott

CUMBRIAN BLUE(S): A Solo Exhibition of Recent Works by Paul Scott

Cumbrian Blue(s): A Solo Exhibition of Recent Works by Paul Scott

July 19 through November 23, 2013
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Ronald E. Holstein Gallery

EVENTS
ARTIST LECTURE
Cumbrian Blue(s): An Illustrated Journey through Gardens, Patterns, Factories, and Confected Landscapes
Friday, September 27, 2013 from 7 – 10 pm
Followed by a public reception during Gallery Night

Cumbrian Blue(s) presents the ceramic work of English artist Paul Scott, whose plates and platters emulate the look of mass produced consumer wares, using traditional blue and white motifs and patterns with his own twist. His works superimpose non-traditional images—modern wind turbines with an idyllic farm scene; a power plant with 18th century trees or German automobiles against an Orientalist scene of a pagoda—onto what otherwise could be an antique piece of China.

Scott’s research plays a key role in all aspects of his work—from investigating the technical methodologies of print transfers to the synthesis of historical form and contemporary artifact embodied in these works. His book Ceramics and Print, first published in 1994 and subsequently revised, was among the first to examine the synthesis of print and clay, exploring both methodologies and concepts. He is currently investigating old conservation methods of repairing ceramic forms—stapling and wiring. He holds a PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University for his research project, Ceramics and Landscape, Remediation and Confection, a Theory of Surface.

Paul Scott is based in the Cumbria region of northwestern England. His characteristic blue and white ceramics can be found in private and public collections around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The National Museum Stockholm Sweden; The Museum of Art and Design, New York; and the National Decorative Arts Museum, Norway. In July 2011, Scott was appointed Professor 2 at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) in Norway.

Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s) – The Hartlepool Ghost Ships” 2013, in-glaze decal, gold lustre on bone china plate, 12″ diameter
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s) – After the By-Pass (Wild Rose)” 2012, in-glaze decal, gold lustre on old earthenware plate (c.1850), 10.25″ diameter
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s) – Spode Works Closed, Shops” 2011, in-glaze decal, gold lustre on salvaged Spode bone china, 12″ diameter
Paul Scott, “Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Fukashima” 2013, Inglaze decal collage, gold luster on House of Blue Willow made in Japan plate c. 1820, 8.75 x 12 x 1″
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s) – Alberta No: 02/30/06/13″ 2013, in-glaze decal, gold lustre on old enamel plate, 7.75” diameter
Paul Scott, Cumbrian Blue(s), Leibstadt, reverse, 2013, inglaze decal, gold lustre on old enamel plate, 9.5″diameter
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s) – Alberta No: 3” 2013, in-glaze decal, gold lustre on Hycroft Potteries earthenware plate, 11.5″ diameter
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s) – Alberta No: 3” 2013, in-glaze decal, gold lustre on Hycroft Potteries earthenware plate, 11.5″ diameter
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s) – A Willow for Ai Weiwei, Wen Tao, Liu Zhenggang, Zhang Jinsong, Hu Mingfen” 2012, in-glaze decals on partially erased Willow Pattern platter (c.1840), 13.75 x 17″.
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s) – Spode Works Closed” 2009-2011, in-glaze decal, gold lustre on Spode Italian casserole salvaged from the kiln area in the closed Spode factory, 15 x 11 x 2.25″. Museum of Fine Art, Boston Collection.
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s) – Spode Works Closed, Italian Blue, 03/10/09/09l,” 2013, in-glaze decal, gold lustre on small Spode casserole, (marked Made in Portugal) salvaged from the kiln area in the closed Spode factory 07/09, 3.5 x 9 x 11.25″. Rhode Island School of Design Collection.
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s) – Pastoral” 2013, in-glaze decal, gold luster on partially erased Alfred Meakin earthenware platter (c.1935), 11″ diameter.