In 2001 Richard Scott forsook his very successful ‘day job’
as technical illustrator-turned-IT specialist to pursue his
passion for art full-time. Born in Britain in 1968 but now
residing in South Africa, he started drawing at an early
age, always scribbling down ideas, but it was to take him
almost 30 years to arrive at his vocation of fully fledged
artist.
His work exhibits some characteristics that may be
associated with the 1960s Pop Art movement, yet it
defies simplistic categorisation, oscillating as it does
between naively decorative and super contemporary.
Scott’s vision is personal and reflective. Though his
images sometimes appear simplistic, they form a
complex and coherent whole. Using a variety of painting,
sculpture, drawing and graphic media, he borrows images
from the world of popular and consumer culture to
convey his social, sexual and perceptual messages. Cars,
planes, flowers, children, nude women, male genitals,
lighthouses and African animals combine to form Scott’s
personal iconography. He constantly modifies and reexamines
old imagery, but when viewed in terms of ideas
rather than chronology, the stylistic cohesion of his work
becomes apparent.
Richard is always passionate about his art, his creative
processes and his conceptualisation of ideas, whether he
works in sculpture, painting, drawing or graphics. Like
numerous other Pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein,
Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami, he values
the creative process as highly as the finished product.
Taken from Richard Book 2005 |
