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Thursday, 16 January 2014

DIGITAL FUTURES - 4 - PAUL SCOTT

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Paul Scott Lecture

  • Cumbrian Blue
  • Artist involved in research throughout all of his career
  • Works mainly with ready made traditional ceramics
  • Graphics, painting and drawing were his background
  • Hot off the press book about how to print onto ceramics. Paul Scott & Terry Bennett
  • Book is about how to print and then he had an exhibition which was about why (Exhibition “are you sitting comfortably”)
  • Stoke on Trent Gladstone
  • Phd funded by MIRIAD bursary
  • Digital technology and how it can help artists
  • a-n.co.uk as students we have full access to their website, knowledge bank and artists talking section
  • Updates book ceramics and print, contemporary practice in ceramics
  • Megumi Naiton - artists work in special collections, i-phone series
  • Scott Rench - yosoh.com (studied at Edinburgh uni in USA)
  • Scott curates, writes and works to commission
  • Scott takes the historical and puts the contemporary in
  • Foot & Mouth plate, Ai Wei Wei plate
  • When we go on holiday we’d take photographs as souvenirs, back in the day people used to make paintings as souvenirs
  • Magazines and books, disseminate paintings and images out to the population
  • Ceramics copied by putting the images onto ceramic plates (images)
  • Designed landscapes, rich people moved a village and planned the landscape so that they could have a nice painting of their house
  • Blue & white ceramics goes East to West and vice versa
  • English potters copied Eastern patterns
  • His digital scan enabled him to re-visualise it at a larger scale
  • Pixels in mosaic and on screen - ceramic wall in Hanei
  • Putting ceramics back into nature to create full circle - ceramics tree
  • ceramic.co.uk - ceramic research centre
  • English style copper plates from Sweden
  • Can print from metal plates as etching or do a relief print from the actual plate
  • Laser engraved plates from digital artwork for when the engraves retires
  • Image of mosaic was has motorcyclists driving past which Scott like and incorporated into his works.
  • Ceramic engravers now usually make bank notes
  • Interested in the different languages between prints enplanes, engraving and digital
  • Digital technology allows us to access lots of information online and quickly. Interested in the way it is presented, instagram etc
  • Scotts work appeals to people who don’t understand contemporary art as they relate to the ceramic plates.
  • Look out for his talks on MIRIAD online

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