Text & Images: Anke Buchmann showing Paul Scott, Costa Concordia, 2014, Paul Scott, Refugee Series No 2, 2016, Paul Scott, The Horizon Series, Fracked No 5, 2014
Paul Scott is bringing daily news onto industrially made transfer-ware and showing them in juxtaposition to historic cultural artefacts. The Cumbrian based artist explores a range of issues from ecology to the refugee crisis, altering, erasing and adding new images to scenes and items of domestic items, whereby the imagery is ruptured and recalibrated for a contemporary world.
Listening to Paulâs insights and research on the production of the objects and the role that they have played in an industrialised capitalist society brought my attention to his glasses that matched the blue and white artworks. A very nice touch that emphasises the artists eye to detail.Â
Paul Scottâs private collection âHome Truthsâ is up for view at the PEER gallery 3. March - 22. April 2017, 97 & 99 Hoxton Street, London N16QLÂ
Artist Website:Â http://cumbrianblues.com
Gallery Website:Â http://www.peeruk.org