Celia Scott’s expressive, realist sculpture counters the deskilling prevalent among contemporary artists, without rejecting modernism. Her work exhibits her concerns with the relation of sculpture to collective memory and the way sculpture is displayed.

Her portrait busts are more than simply ‘portraits’ or facsimiles – they have a powerful physical and psychological presence…. for me her work has the ‘gravitas’ of classical Roman sculpture.

Michael Sandle RA, Head to Head, catalogue 2012