William Scott was born in Greenock, Scotland, but moved to Enniskillen with his family at the age of 11. His formal art training began at the Belfast College of Art and later won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy Schools in London where he took classes in both painting and sculpture. From the mid 1930s Scott moved numerous times, living in Cornwall, Italy, the South of France and Pont Aven. When World War II broke out he returned to the UK and joined the army, working at the lithograph
y and map-making section of the Royal Engineers in North Wales.
His output stayed consistent after the war, and after visiting New York where he met Martha Jackson she held six solo shows for Scott and introduced him to painters Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Franz Klein. Scott exhibited closer to home at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, ROSC ’80 and represented Britain at the 1958 Venice Biennale. Retrospectives of his work have been held at Whitechapel, Tate Britain, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ulster Museum, Kunsthalle Berne and the F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio.
William Scott's work was included in 'Ulster Artists' exhibition (2010), 'The French Connection' (2010) and 'A Celebration of Irish Art and Modernism' (2011).
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