Patrick Scott, Meditation Painting 28, 2006, Gold leaf & acrylic on unprimed canvas. Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Donation, the artist, 2013.
The Irish artist Patrick Scott died today aged 93. A two centre exhibition of his work due to open at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) tomorrow and at Visual in Carlow will go ahead. IMMA has expressed their sympathy to Eric Pearce, partner of Patrick Scott and the artists family, saying he had been a defining figure of Irish art for over 70 years. In a statement the museum said that the exhibition due to open tomorrow (February 15) is testament to his extraordinary career, life and achievements as an artist. He will be sorely missed by the arts community and IMMA is honoured to pay tribute to one of Ireland’s most important artists with this major exhibition on which Patrick Scott worked closely with the curator Christina Kennedy who is Head of Collections at the museum. It is Eric Pearce and the family’s wish that the launch of the exhibition Patrick Scott: Image Space Light proceeds as planned tomorrow afternoon, at 3.30pm, as a celebration of Patrick Scott’s life and work.
Scott had his first exhibition in 1941 with the White Stag Group. This latest exhibition brings together more than 100 pieces that illustrate the breadth and longevity of his career as an architect, designer and artist. The exhibition at IMMA concentrates on Scott’s early works from the 1940s to the early 70’s while VISUAL displays works from the 1960’s to the present. On winning a National Prize at the Guggenheim International Award in 1960 and representing Ireland at the XXX Venice Biennale in the same year, Patrick Scott became a full-time artist.
The artist Corban Walker has been invited to guest-curate a selection of Patrick Scott’s works for the Link Gallery in VISUAL. Focusing on the theme of the grid in Scott’s work and responding to Scott’s graphic design work, Walker has also created a site-specific installation for the window area in the Link Gallery.
An exhibition of prints, paintings and works on paper by Patrick Scott runs at the Taylor Galleries in Dublin until March 1.