Paul scott catalogue holburne museum

Confected, Borrowed and Blue... an installation by Paul Scott at The Holburne Museum 1st November 2014 - 18th January 2015

Paul Scott Confected, Borrowed and Blue... an installation by Paul Scott Exhibition at The Holburne Museum

PAUL SCOTT In Paul Scott’s hands, domestic ceramics mutate into subversive comments on our life and times. His expert manipulation of familiar motifs like the Willow Pattern gives his work special resonance and broad appeal. He also uses undecorated factory ceramics, called ‘blanks’;these are over-printed in the same blue as the Willow Pattern to dramatic effect.

Blue and white china is often displayed at home for its decorative qualities; it is a visual language that many people are familiar with.

Scott’s appropriation of its traditional patterns as vehicles for sociopolitical commentary has made his work unmistakeable. Warning signs for radioactivity are tucked into the border of the Willow Pattern; jet planes streak across rural landscapes.

On a shallow oval dish with delicate fluted edges, a drilling platform rises starkly above a sumptuous deep blue landscape. As befits the title - Fracked - the dish is cracked and in time honoured fashion, the crack has been filled with gold.

A ghost factory, with the legend ‘Spode Closed’, overprinted onto a classic Spode Italian plate laments the demise of the ceramics industry in Britain. The exhibition includes new work derived from a period of research in the Spode archive.

With prefixes like ‘Scott’s Cumbrian Blues’ and ‘The Scott collection,’ the titles of Scott’s ceramics reference both private and institutional collecting practices. On the reverse of each piece are found his maker’s mark, information about the printed ‘edition’ to which it belongs, and sometimes his signature.

In Partnership with Bath Spa University Supported by Arts Council England

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s) Arctic Scenery, Kulluk, 2014 In-glaze print collage and gold lustre on feather edged pearlware platter (c.1820) 37.4 x 28.8 cms £1,800

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Stigsnæs No.2, 2007 In-glaze decal collage on Villeroy and Boch plate (bought in Skælskør, 5 miles from the power plant) Guldagergård, Skælskør, Denmark 42.2 x 30.4 cms £1,500

Skælskør, 5 miles from the power plant) Guldagergård, Skælskør, Denmark 422 x 304mm 2007w

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Fukushima, 2014 In-glaze decal collage on broken and re-assembled Willow pattern platter, marked Japan (c.1965) Wave insert from erased Willow platter (c.1840).

Gold leaf, tile cement & epoxy resin.

46.4 x 34.9 cms ÂŁ2,950

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Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), The Horizon Series, Wind Turbine No.10, 2014 In-glaze decal collage and gold lustre on W.H.Grindley and Co. earthenware platter (c.1920) 36 x 28 cms £1,500

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), The Horizon Series, Fracked No.5, 2014 In-glaze decal collage and gold lustre on Booths ironstone platter (c.1900) 32.5 x 42.4 cms £1,950

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), The Albertan, No.1, 2011 In-glaze decal collage on Medalta Potteries toilet cistern top (c.1970) Medalta, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada 52.3 x 20.5 cms £2,950

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Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Bridgeless, 2014 Collage 24 x 24 cms £1,800

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Gothic Bridge Ruin, 2014 Collage 25.5 x 25.5 cms £1,800

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Garden After Stephenson & Mi Youren, 2014 Collage 28.7 x 25.3 cms £1,800

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Garden After Li Cheng & Claude Lorraine, 2014 Collage 24.5 x 21.4 cms £1,800

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Nerc Bridges, 2014 Collage 28.4 x 25.1 cms £2,500

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), After the Bypass (Tower), 2012 In-glaze decal collage on Spode Tower plate 27.8 x 27.8 cms £1,200

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), American Scenery, Turnpike (New Jersey), 2013/14 Screen print (in-glaze decal) and gold lustre on Portmeirion platter.

Clay studio, Philadelphia, USA and Blencogo, Cumbria, UK 34.1 x 23.4 cms ÂŁ1,200

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Alberta No.8, 2011/13 In-glaze decal collage and gold leaf on broken Hycroft china earthenware plate, rivited with brass staples Medalta, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada and Blencogo, Cumbria 24.7 x 24.7cms £1,200

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), English Scenery, Pastoral, 2014 In-glaze decal collage and gold lustre on Alfred Meakin plate (c.1960) 25 x 25 cms £1,200

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), English Scenery, Countryside, 2014 In-glaze decal collage and gold lustre on Davenport plate (c.1850) 26.5 x 26.5 cms £1,200

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), English Scenery, Wordsworth’s Lake Country, 2014 In-glaze decal collage and gold lustre on Nelson Ware jug (c.1930) 12.2 x 16.8 cms £1,200

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), English Scenery, Sellafield, The Commissioning Series, 2014 Screen print (in-glaze decal) on unmarked earthenware platter (c.1900) 47.8 x 37.8 cms £2,500

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Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Cow in a Meadow After Damien Hirst, 2014 Assemblage, in-glaze decal and gold on Bernardaud porcelain platter with sliced cow creamer (c.1850) 18 x 13.5 cms (Cow) 39 x 30.2 cms (Platter) £3,500

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Cow in a Meadow After Thomas Bewick, 2014 Assemblage, in-glaze decal and gold on Bernardaud porcelain platter with tin glazed form (Cooklands Cow) 22.4 x 13 cms (Cow) 39 x 30.2 cms (Platter) £1,500

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Foot & Mouth No.5 After Macleod, Darwin and May... 2003/2012 Screen print (in-glaze decal) on Royal Worcester bone china platter 43 x 32.5 cms £2,500

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Italian Cows, 2014 Collage 25 x 25 cms £1,800

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Wild Italian, 2014 Collage 33.5 x 27.5 cms £1,800

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Spode Works Closed, 2009/2010 In-glaze decal and gold lustre on unfinished Spode’s Italian porcelain casserole dish (marked ‘Made in Czech Republic’) salvaged from the closed Spode Works in 2009 39 x 29.3 cms £2,950

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Italian Willow, 2014 Collage 33 x 28 cms £1,800

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), A Willow for Ai Weiwei (Wen Tao, Liu Zhenggang, Zhang Ginseng & Hu Mingfen), 2014 Erased Willow Pattern platter (c.1840) with in-glaze decal collaging and gold lustre 41 x 32 cms £1,800

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Palestine, 2014 In-glaze decal collage, gold lustre on partially erased Stevenson Palestine plate (c.1820) 26.5 x 26.5 cms £950

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Palestine, Gaza, 2014 In-glaze decal collage, gold lustre on three partially erased Adams Palestine dessert plates (c.1840) 21.5 x 21.5 cms each £2,500

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Scenery, Yanina, 2013 In-glaze decal collage, gold lustre on Copeland & Garrett Late Spode platter (c.1840) Clay Studio, Philadelphis, USA 38.7 x 27.5 cms £1,950

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Bombs Over Bagdad, 2014 In-glaze decal collage on damaged Minton platter with crest and text Servata Fides Cinera (‘Loyalty Preserved in Ashes’) 52.8 x 40.8 cms £2,950

Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Wil low, 2014 Collage 39 x 30.4 cms £1,800