Artist of the Day, February 25, 2026 : Tim Scott, a British sculptor (#2389)

Tim Scott (1937) is a British sculptor known for his abstract sculptures made from transparent acrylic and steel. While studying architecture at the Architectural Association school of architecture, Scott also studied sculpture part-time at Saint Martin's School of Art with Sir Anthony Caro, where he also later taught. Inspired by the example of David Smith, Scott began to make sculptures using materials such as fibreglass, glass, metal, and acrylic sheets.

Scott was part of a group of young sculptors known as the 'New Generation', exhibiting together in London in the mid-1960s. In the 1970s, Scott created his groundbreaking series of thick-slab acrylic and steel sculptures. Frustrated ultimately with the fragility of plastics at the time, Scott switched to steel for his material, abandoning his trademark acrylic sheets altogether.

His work can be found in many important collections, including 12 works at the Tate, London, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. His work is also held by the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Kunsthalle, Hamburg. He had solo shows in London at the Waddington Galleries in 1966 and the Whitechapel Gallery in 1967, at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge in 1980, at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg in 1981 and the Poussin Gallery in London in 2006. His sculptures have also been exhibited in group shows, including the Arts Council England touring exhibition Kaleidoscope: Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art, which was at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in June 2017.

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Tim Scott

Bird in Arras VII, 1960

Round Midnight, 1961

Peach Wheels, 1961-62

Dulcimer, 1961–65

Agrippa, 1964

Quantic of Sakkara, 1965

Quadreme, 1966

Quinquereme, 1966

Bird in Arras III, 1968

Trireme, 1968

Bird in Arras IV, 1969

Wine, 1969

Cathedral, 1970–71

Pool V, 1971

Counterpoint X, 1972-73

Nataraja IV, 1975

Mudra XIX, 1976

Mudra XV, 1976

Shruti III, 1976

Konarak III, 1978

NRTTA IV (Rhythmic), 1979

New York Mudra VII, 1983

Song for Rhythm III, 1987

Song for Adele V, 1992

Swing and Bow, 1992

Mudra Frame, 1994-95

From Degas IX, 1998

A changed world, 2000

The Clamp, 2001

Bridge of Echoes I, 2016

Song for Echos III, 2017

Song for Echos IV, 2017