Tim Scott

Born 1937

Tim Scott was born in Surrey and went to the Tunbridge Wells School of Art before studying architecture at the Architectural Association between 1954 and 1959. From 1955, Scott also studied sculpture part-time at St. Martin’s School of Art under Anthony Caro. He showed with the Young Contemporaries and from 1959 to 1961 lived in Paris and worked at Atelier Le Corbusier-Wegenscky, where he began to use new materials in his work including brightly coloured acrylic and fibreglass alongside glass and metal. Scott taught at St. Martin’s from 1962 but by the end of the decade had ceased to work with plastic due to the fragile nature of the materials, especially outdoors. He was sculptor-in-residence at the North London Polytechnic in 1978/79 and became Head of Sculpture at St. Martin’s in 1980. Scott exhibited at Kettle’s Yard in 1979/80 and several times in Germany in the 1980s, where he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg.