(b Richmond, Surrey, 18 April 1937). English sculptor. He trained as an architect from 1954 to 1959 at the Architectural Association, London, and part-time as a sculptor at St Martin's School of Art from 1955 to 1959 under Anthony Caro when Caro was still working figuratively. Scott later recalled that in his search for abstraction he took as his first model the work of Constantin Brancusi; the sculpture of David Smith, to which his formal language bears some resemblance, was then known to him only from photographs. Scott sought materials and technology that allowed the assembly of large, volumetric forms in unconventional ways. Scott's early polychrome sculptures, such as For 'Cello (fibreglass, steel tube and acrylic sheet, 3.96*2.74*1.37 m, 1965; Leicester, Col. Sch. & Colls), were made of such diverse materials as fibreglass, acrylic sheet, glass and metal, used equally for their unique properties and the contrasts their combination afforded. Colour was always a function of materials, a way of differentiating or even of generating forms.
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