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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