Paul Scott is a Cumbrian based artist with a diverse practice and an international reputation.

He creates individual pieces that blur the boundaries between fine art, craft and design. Paul 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 research, studio practice, curation, writing and commissioned work ensures that his work is continually developing. It is fundamentally concerned with the re-animation of familiar objects, landscape, pattern and a sense of place.

He has been Professor of Ceramics at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) since 2011.

His current research project New American Scenery has been enabled by an Alturas Foundation artist award.

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SOLO SHOWS

2017

Home Truths, PEER London

2016

Cuttings, Ruins, Refugees and Wild Roses, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Trees and Cuttings, Cheeseburn Sculpture Park, Northumberland, UK

2015

Scenery –  Gardens, Bridges, Trucks, Turbines and Willows, Benson Hall Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA,

with Andrew Raftery

Confected Borrowed and Blue, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Teesdale, England

Confected Borrowed and Blue, Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire, England

Confected Borrowed and Blue, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales

Confected Borrowed and Blue, The Potteries Museum and Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England

2014

Confected Borrowed and Blue, Holburne Museum, Bath Spa

2013

Cumbrian Blue(s) at the Erie Art Museum, Erie PA, USA

Cumbrian Blue(s), Words by the Water Festival, Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, Cumbria

Horizon, Rom 8, KHiB, Bergen, Norway, with Herbert Wiegand

2012

Blue and White Horizons, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2011

blås&knåda, Stockholm, Sweden

2010

Illustrious Wonderers, Anne Linnemann Studio Galleri, Copenhagen, with Kurt Wesier, USA and Stephen Bowers, Australia

2009

Cumbrian Blue(s) at Rörstrand, The Rörstrand Museum, Lidköping Sweden

2008

Bovall Gallery, Bovallstrand Sweden, with Lillemor Petersson

Cumbrian Blue(s), 21st Century Showcase Manchester City Art Gallery, Newport Museum/Art Gallery

2007

Confected Landscapes, Cultural Wall paper and Contemporary Vignettes, Sir Kenneth Green Library, Special Collections Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University

BC Ceramics Gallery,Vancouver, Canada

2006

blås&knåda, Stockholm, Sweden

2005

Parcours Céramique Carougeois, Peter Kammerman Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

Body Blue, Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen, with Ann Linneman

2003

Cumbrian Blue(s), Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK

2002

Remember Me, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Remember Me When This You See, University of Wales Ceramics Collection, Aberystwyth

2001

Blue and White(haven) (contemporary interpretations of a collection): Beacon Museum and Art Gallery, Whitehaven, Cumbria, UK

1999

Grove Gallery, University of California, San Diego, USA

1998

Art.tm, Inverness

1995

Maureen Michaelson, London Contemporary Art Fair