With Out

Ceramic
2023

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Victoria Ferrand Scott MA MRSS is a Yorkshire based sculptor working primarily in concrete. Her studio near Tadcaster provides the work space for her exploratory practice ,experimenting with materials of a fluid origin, ranging from concrete cast in flexible forming, to plaster, clay, wax and bronze. It houses many test pieces and also an accumulation of found objects ready to be utilised for more site specific installations or sculptural assemblages.

Alongside her studio practice she has worked at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park since 2005, delivering sculpture workshops as an artist in education.

Elected a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2009, her work has been selected for exhibition in London at the RSS and the Royal Academy, in addition to many exhibitions in the north, both indoors and in the open air.

Research into the uses of fluid concrete combined with flexible forming lead to a Leverhulme Trust funded Residency in the Department of Civil Engineering at Leeds University (2010-2011). The resulting abstract sculptures came about through testing materials and processes, harnessing natural forces of flow, elasticity and expansion, whilst allowing the material to dictate its own form.

Victoria plays with polarities by combining concrete (often seen as a brutalist construction material) with silky stretchy fabrics, tailored into moulds. The concrete flows and bulges, straining at the seams, demonstrating its capacity for creating sensual forms and recording tactile surfaces. The resulting minimalist sculptures retain the memory of their production, together with the suggestion of simple life forms and processes.