Tim Scott (born 1937, London) is a British sculptor known for his abstract sculptures made from transparent acrylic and steel. While studying architecture, Scott also studied sculpture part-time at

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with Sir Anthony Caro, where he also later taught. Inspired by the example of David Smith, Scott began to make sculptures using materials such as fibreglass, glass, metal, and acrylic sheets. Scott was part of a group of young sculptors known as the 'New Generation', exhibiting together in London in the mid-1960s. In the 1970s, Scott created his groundbreaking series of thick-slab acrylic and steel sculptures. Frustrated ultimately with the fragility of plastics at the time, Scott switched to steel for his material, abandoning his trademark acrylic sheets altogether. His work can be found in many important collections, including 12 works at the

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, London, and the

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. His work is also held by the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum,

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, the

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, the

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, and the Kunsthalle, Hamburg. He had solo shows in

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at the Waddington Galleries in 1966 and the Whitechapel Gallery in 1967, at

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in 1980, at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg in 1981 and the Poussin Gallery in London in 2006. His sculptures have also been exhibited in group shows, including the

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touring exhibition ''Kaleidoscope: Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art'', which was at the

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in June 2017. He taught inter alia as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg.

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British sculptors British male sculptors Artists from London 1937 births Living people Academics of Saint Martin's School of Art Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art English contemporary artists {{UK-sculptor-stub