BIOGRAPHY
Studied
2014-15 MA Fine Art, City and Guilds of London Art School
(awarded the Harriet Anstruther Prize for Excellence)
1969-71 Diploma in Architecture, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London
1966-69 BSc in Architecture, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London
1966 Pre-Diploma in Fine Art, Bath Academy of Art, Corsham
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Remembered Space: Studio Works by Celia Scott: Velorose Gallery, Charterhouse Square, London
(Top of the Whitechapel Gallery's First Thursdays Top 5 exhibitions)
2016 Wood Works: The Zetter, Clerkenwell, London
2012 Head to Head: Solo Sculpture show, Eleven Spitalfields Gallery, London
(selected for the Whitechapel Gallery's First Thursday's special three-galleries tour)
1991 Figure Heads: Solo Sculpture Installation, John Nichols Gallery, New York City
Two Person Exhibitions
2024 3 -14 June, Carve, Crease, Crimp, Colour, with Stephen Greenberg, Velorose Gallery, Charterhouse Square, London
2023 OAA23, with Lorraine Thomas, Galerie Emprise, Marseille, France
2023 Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless, Ideas, Faces and Places, Robert Maxwell and Celia Scott
Royal Institute of British Architects, London
2022 Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless, Ideas, Faces and Places, Robert Maxwell and Celia Scott
Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin
2020 Window II (Reversed), London Festival of Architecture: Velorose Gallery, Charterhouse Square, London
2015 Charrette: First Open Call Exhibition, Turps Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Modernism at the Mall, curated by Scott, Isokon Gallery, London
Filmed interview with Scott in Mall Studios:
https://isokongallery.org/blogs/exhibtions/2023-modernism-at-the-mall
2022 Cosmic, Comic, Cosmetic Themes and Designs for a House, The Cosmic House, London
2021 The Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Exhibition, Online Exhibition of long-listed works
2019 The Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Exhibition, Piano Nobile Gallery, Kings Place, London
Chroma: Velorose Gallery, Charterhouse Square, London
(selected for the Whitechapel Gallery's First Thursday's Top 5 exhibitions)
Print Makers Council, LAND, SEA, SKY: The Ropewalk Gallery, North Lincolnshire
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair: Royal Arsenal, Greenwich, London
Festival of Print: The Art Pavilion, London
Members Summer Exhibition: London Print Studio, London
2018 Festival of Print: The Art Pavilion, London
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair: Royal Arsenal, Greenwich, London
Members Summer Exhibition: London Print Studio, London
10 x 10 Drawing the City: Elizabeth Line, TwentyTwo Bishopsgate, London
2017 Exceptional: The Collyer Bristow New Graduate Exhibition and Award, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
10 x 10 Drawing the City, Legacy of Stratford, Royal Institute of British Architects, London
2016 10 x 10 Drawing the City, Brixton, Royal Institute of British Architects, London
2015 MA Fine Art Degree Show: City and Guilds of London Art School
(awarded the Harriet Anstruther Prize for Excellence)
10 x 10 Drawing the River, Royal Institute of British Architects, London
2014 16/15: The Muse Gallery, London.
10 x 10, Drawing the City, 100 views around the Shard, The Shard, London
2012 The Metaflux Platform: Royal College of Art, London
10 x 10 Drawing the City, Somerset House, London
2011 Rootstein Hopkins Drawing Exhibition: Morley Gallery, London
50 Years of London Architecture, Ambika P3, London
10 x 10 Drawing the City, German Gymnasium, London
2010 Beddington Fine Art Sculpture Gardens at Ten: Bargemon, France
Made: part three: Painting: Morley Gallery, London
2009 Between Earth and Heaven: Museum of Modern Art Ostend, Belgium
1998 Summer Exhibition: Royal Academy of Arts, London
1995 David Urwin Awards: Architecture Centre, Cambridge
First Sight: Royal institute of British Architects, London
1993 Summer Exhibition: Royal Academy of Arts, London
1989 The Great Good Place: Stuart County Day School, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
1983 Santa Barbara Art Museum Competition: Philippe Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1978 Young Camden Architects: Royal Institute of British Architects, London
1977 Millbank Housing Competition: Art Net Gallery, London
Installations
2010 Four Heads: Beddington Fine Art, Bargemon, France
2005 James Stirling Memorial: Christ Church Spitalfields, London
1992 Men and Women: bas-relief, Broadmead Swim Club, Princeton, N.J., U.S.A.
1983 Hephaestus: Charles Jencks’ Cosmic House, London
Collections
HM King Charles III, Highgrove Gardens, Gloucestershire
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Dean Centre for Art, Edinburgh
British Library, London
Clare College, Cambridge
Royal Institute of British Architects, London
Royal Academy of Music, London
Mies van der Rohe School, Aachen, Germany
Portrack Gardens, Scotland
The Warehouse, Michael Graves College, Princeton, NJ, USA
Private collections in UK, France and USA
Sculpture Commissions
Portrait commissions include David Attenborough, Harrison Birtwistle, Francoise Choay, Terry Farrell, M. J. Long, Eduardo Paolozzi, Eric Parry, Fiona Scott, James Stirling, Rita Wolff.
Residency
2024 September, Pier Arts/Linkshouse, Orkney
Books on Celia Scott
See Publications
Articles by Celia Scott
2023 Modernism at the Mall, Society of Architectural Historians GB, website
https://www.sahgb.org.uk/features/modernism-at-the-mall
2023 Introduction: Ideas, Faces and Places: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless, Celia Scott, Robert Maxwell and Others, London, Canalside Press
2022 Introduction: Robert Maxwell, the Letter, the Lost Sketchbook and the Lecture: London
2017 Scott and La Pietra, Drawing of the Week, Drawing Matter (online) 17 March, https://www.drawingmatter.org/sets/drawing-week/celia-scott-and-ugo-la-pietra/
2015 Colquhoun on Art, Colquhounery: Alan Colquhoun from Bricolage to Myth, AA Publications, p.52-3 & illustrations on p.108-111
2011 The Two heads of Leon Krier, AA Files 57, p.17-19
2010 Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling, Architectural teacher, in Magazine of the C20th Society, Winter 2010/11, p. 13
2000 New Building in Belsize Park, Belsize 2000, A Living Suburb, Belsize Conservation Area Advisory Committee, p 106-114
Citations and Reviews
2023 Bob Allies, Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless, Ideas, Faces and Places, Building Design, 9 March
2022 Robin Webster and Eric Parry, Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless, Ideas, Faces and Places, Robert Maxwell and Celia Scott, 31 October, https://drawingmatter.org/sweet-disorder-and-the-carefully-careless-ideas-faces-and-places-2022-review/
2021 Deanna Petherbridge, Remembered Space, The Studio Works of Celia Scott, Women Writing Architecture, Drawing Matter Extracts -2, Drawing Matter
2018 Deanna Petherbridge, Remembered Space, Studio Works by Celia Scott, Drawing of the Week, Drawing Matter (online) 22 April, https://www.drawingmatter.org/sets/drawing-week/remembered-spaces/
2017 Compendium, Eleven Spitalfields Gallery, with Introduction by Edwin Heathcote, Celia Scott, pp. 130-3
2017 Katharine Eustace, Celia Scott: L'Attente, Drawing of the Week, Drawing Matter, 31 May, https://www.drawingmatter.org/sets/drawing- week/celia-scott-space/
2017 Henry H Kuehn, Barry Bergdoll and Paul Goldberger, James F. Stirling, Architects' Gravesites, A Serendipitous Guide, MIT Press, p.99
2015 Paul Robinson, Charette: new Curated Exhibition Shaped by Architectural Discourse, Artlyst, 5 December
2015 George Micaellef-Eynaud, City & Guilds of London Art School – MA Fine Art Show 2015, Artlyst, 23 September
2012 Michael Spens, Reading the Head, Studio International, 12 June
2012 Ellis Woodman, Caroline Vout, Celia Scott, In Conversation, Celia Scott, Head to Head, catalogue, Eleven Spitalfields Gallery, May
2012 Michael Sandle RA, Introduction, Celia Scott, Head to Head, catalogue, Eleven Spitalfields Gallery, May
2008 Michael Spens, The Portrait Sculpture of Celia Scott, Studio International, 7 May
2008 Paul Finch, Celia Scott Captures the Spirit of Architects, Architectural Review
2008 Ken Powell, Sculpture or Bust, Building Design, 9 May
2000 Michael Hall, Stirling Wit and Passion, Country Life, 31 August
1992 Paola Antonelli, Busti d’Architetti, Abitare 305, March
1991 Suzanne Stephens, Contemporary Busts, New York Times, 10 October
1991 Deyan Sudjik, Celia Scott, Blueprint no 80, September
Architectural Practice
1993 - 2008 Principal of Maxwell Scott Architects, London
1982 - 1993 Architect for firms in USA, including Smith-Miller + Hawkinson, New York City
1972 - 1982 Architect working for firms in London, including Foster Associates
Citations and Reviews: Architecture
2017 Mark Swenarton, 8-42 Bassett Street NW5, Cook's Camden, The Making of Modern Housing, pp 289-290
2011 50 Years of London Architecture 1960-2010, supplement, Wordsearch
2007 Private House, St John’s Wood, RIBA Architecture Review London
2006 Private House, Cambridge, RIBA Architecture Review London
2005 Private House, Hampstead, and Private House, Belsize Park, RIBA Architecture Review
2005 Mark Swenarton, Sculptor’s Studio, Architecture Today, No 156, March
1996 Penny McGuire, Lofty Ideals: Architectural Review, No. 1196, November
1996 Alexandra Campbell, Lofty Thoughts, The Independent Magazine, 26 October, p.12
1995 Hellenic Scholar’s House, Cambridge, Architecture + Detail, No. 5, November, p.36
1995 Mark Swenarton, House for a Hellenic Scholar, Architecture Today, January
1981 Haig Beck, Underground Intervention, International Architect, No 5, Vol 1 Issue 5, May, p.5
1981 High and Over Revisited, Architectural Design, July
1977 Millbank Housing Competition, Architectural Design, August
Professional Affiliations
1974 - present Member of Royal Institute of British Architects
1996 - present Fellow of Royal Society of Arts
1998 - 2010 Member of American Institute of Architects
1987 - 2010 Registered Architect in New York State, USA