PROFILE

After studying at Bath Academy of Art, Celia Scott qualified as an architect at the Bartlett, University College London, and following a successful career as an architect, graduated with an MA in Fine Art from City and Guilds of London Art School in 2015, where she won the Harriet Anstruther Prize for Excellence.

Scott's artwork has been exhibited widely, and she has had solo shows at the Eleven Spitalfields and Velorose galleries in London and John Nichols Gallery, New York. Her portrait sculptures are held in several public and private collections in the UK, including King Charles’ Highgrove Gardens, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Institute of British Architects and three in the British Library, as well as in several  private collections in Europe and the USA.  Her sitters include Sir David Attenborough, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi and Sir James Stirling.

In 2023, she curated the exhibition Modernism at the Mall at the Isokon Gallery in Hampstead and co-edited Ideas, Faces and Places, Canalside Press (2023)  a record of an exhibition and symposium that took place in Dublin at the Irish Architectural Archive in 2022 and transferred to the RIBA London in 2023. In the exhibition were displayed thirteen of Scott’s portrait heads and the book includes essays by Frampton, Tuomey, Vidler and others.

A book on her sculpture, Celia Scott, was published in 2008 by Black Dog Publishing.