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Ladies of Llangollen, Dillwyn and Cow Creamers (one of four parts; bottom left) (2014)

Paul Scott

ceramic collage in customised, former print tray

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff

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Classification:

Mixed media, Craft

Materials:

Mixed media, Ceramic

Dimensions:

43 x 46 cm

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 2015

Ownership history:

Commissioned from the artist by Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery (now The Box); Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff; Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool through the Contemporary Art Society's New Story of Craft Scheme, 29 August 2014; presented to Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff, 2015

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, National Museum Wales, National Museums Liverpool and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery commissioned Paul Scott to develop a new work through the Contemporary Art Society’s New Story of Craft Scheme between 2012 and 2015. There are many similarities between the collections that were involved in the commission. All are port cities with a history of trade as well as manufacture, and in particular, all had eighteenth-century porcelain factories. Paul Scott made a research visit to each of the collections and was interested not only in the ceramics but more widely in the prints and drawings as well as archaeological collections. Scott’s final work is a response to the objects, prints and materials he unearthed during this research phase.

The work consists of four obsolete print drawers. Each of these contain an amalgamation of historic ceramics. These pieces have been re-printed with new decals (digital prints) to give the historic pieces a new life and also to convey stories relating to each of the four venues. Scott often makes political comments in his practice and a closer look at this new work shows a fracking rig printed onto a nineteenth-century piece of earthenware as well as an engraving of a badger perhaps alluding to the contentious issue of badger culling in the UK. The work also makes visual reference to the darker side of the local histories surrounding Plymouth, Cardiff, Liverpool and Bristol and their association with the slave trade.

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