Biography

Tim Scott, who was born in 1937 in London, now lives and works in Yorkshire and Sri Lanka. He is widely regarded as one of the foremost sculptors of the generation who came immediately after Anthony Caro. He came to prominence in the New Generation:1965 exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and since then has exhibited widely and internationally. His work is represented in the collections of many major museums and galleries including the Tate Gallery, London; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta; and in many private and corporate collections. Scott's early work from the Sixties incorporating plastic, fibreglass and steel in innovative constructions were shown in solo shows at the Waddington Galleries, London 1966, and the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1967. Solo shows continued at the Waddington Galleries throughout the Seventies, when the sculptures became constructed exclusively from welded steel. The work was also shown extensively in America, Canada, and Germany, and the latter was where, from the Eighties, Scott both taught and made sculpture, introducing the forging of hot steel into the process. Whilst shows in Britain have been rare since the late Seventies, Scott has shown regularly and extensively on the Continent, particularly in Koln and Dusseldorf. He has, since the Nineties, pioneered an expressive use of steel as a plastic material which has resulted in sculpture of a unique complexity and ambition.