Freedom & Discipline
17 - 27 July 2025
Private View: Thursday 17th July 18:00 - 20:00
Freedom and Discipline: Sculpture by Tim Scott
Tim Scott (b.1937) was one of the most inventive and original British sculptors to emerge in the 1960s. Curated by Sam Cornish, this exhibition juxtaposes significant examples of Scott’s work of the 1960s and 70s with new drawings and sculptures in plywood.
It launches a publication on his seminal sculptures of the 1960s: Ten Sculptures by Tim Scott 1961-1971. Published by Sansom & Co, ten texts by Sam Cornish introduce key works from this first decade of Scott’s career, with a foreword by his contemporary William Tucker.
The exhibition includes three sculptures loaned from the Estate of Scott’s lifelong friend Anthony Caro. Amongst these is Peach Wheels (1961-62), previously exhibited in the era defining exhibitions New Generation: Sculpture (Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1965) and Primary Structures (Jewish Museum, New York, 1966).
Since the millennium, Scott has largely worked in plywood and cardboard, while in the last year he has been confined to making drawings. Now in his late eighties, he continues to push at the boundaries of his art, with his characteristic mixture of spatial ambiguity and formal precision.
Freedom and Discipline: Sculpture by Tim Scott
Tim Scott (b.1937) was one of the most inventive and original British sculptors to emerge in the 1960s. Curated by Sam Cornish, this exhibition juxtaposes significant examples of Scott’s work of the 1960s and 70s with new drawings and sculptures in plywood.
It launches a publication on his seminal sculptures of the 1960s: Ten Sculptures by Tim Scott 1961-1971. Published by Sansom & Co, ten texts by Sam Cornish introduce key works from this first decade of Scott’s career, with a foreword by his contemporary William Tucker.
The exhibition includes three sculptures loaned from the Estate of Scott’s lifelong friend Anthony Caro. Amongst these is Peach Wheels (1961-62), previously exhibited in the era defining exhibitions New Generation: Sculpture (Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1965) and Primary Structures (Jewish Museum, New York, 1966).
Scott’s sculpture of the 1960s combined clear definition and fantasy, in a unique mixture of openness and volumetric density. His work of the last decade emphasises fluidity and complexity. Fractured structures form and reform, creating successions of overlapping spaces, inviting the viewer in and encouraging them to move. The coherence of the body – a central subject for Scott in the 1980s and 1990s – meets a fantastical architecture.
Since the millennium, Scott has largely worked in plywood and cardboard, while in the last year he has been confined to making drawings. Now in his late eighties, he continues to push at the boundaries of his art, with his characteristic mixture of spatial ambiguity and formal precision.