Fukishima No. 8 From Scott's Cumbrian Blue Series
Paul Scott, 2016
Paul Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s) Fukushima series of ceramics commemorates the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. Each work in the series begins as a broken Willow Pattern platter, originally made in Japan. Scott has taken their shattered forms and mended them using the kintsugi technique in which the repair is marked in gold. As part of the repair he has collaged in a ceramic fragment printed with an image of Katsushika Hokusai’s iconic 19th-century print The Great Wave off Kanagawa, here making a clear reference to the 2011 tsunami.
Scott studied painting and ceramics at St Martin’s College, Lancaster, and is celebrated for his transfer-printed works.
Aberystwyth University Ceramic Collection holds more than 2,000 examples of nonindustrial ceramics, including four earlier works by Paul Scott.
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Title of artwork, date
Fukishima No. 8 From Scott's Cumbrian Blue Series, 2016
Date supported
2018
Medium and material
Collage, ceramic collage
Dimensions
30 x 41 cm
Grant
900
Total cost
1935

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