{"title":"Victoria Ferrand Scott","description":"\u003cp\u003eVictoria Ferrand Scott \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e(b.1958) is an abstract sculptor based in North Yorkshire. She was born and brought up in the south but moved north to Manchester to undertake a BA Hons in History of Art (1978) which, (after a period of working in Venice), lead to a career as a picture cataloguer and valuer for Phillips Auctioneers and then Christie’s, covering the north of England. However the urge to make art was always strong and whilst maintaining the day job part-time, Victoria undertook a BTEC Diploma in Art and Design (distinction) at Leeds College of Art (1998), followed by a BA Hons in Sculpture (1st Class) at Bretton College (2002) and then an MA Fine Art (merit) at the University of Leeds (2004). It was at this point that she gave up her career as a Fine Art Auctioneer in order to concentrate on her sculpture practice. Alongside her studio work she has worked as an Artist in Education at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. \u003cbr\u003eConcrete is one of the materials that Victoria has experimented with, developing unorthodox ways of pouring it into flexible moulds, informed by research undertaken during a Leverhulme funded Artist Residency in Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds(2010-2011). \u003cbr\u003eHaving been elected as a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors and the Yorkshire Sculptors Group in 2009 Victoria has exhibited widely, most recently being shortlisted for The New Light Sculpture Prize and selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2024 she was then Solo Guest Artist for the Sculpture Gallery in Leeds and selected for the Summer Exhibition of the North in 2025. This year she co-curated a sculpture exhibition entitled The Nature of Things at Salts Mill, Shipley near Bradford in addition to exhibiting in shows in Barnsley, Bradford, Sunderland, Helmsley, and the Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"gathering","title":"Gathering","description":"\u003cp\u003eA group of five sculptures, made originally as individual pieces but gradually forming a family as they gathered together in the artist’s studio. As such they have no fixed formation but shift to populate a space, seeming to change character in the process, open to the viewer’s interpretation. Ferrand Scott tailors her moulds, designing a paper pattern, cutting out the stretchy dress fabric, using a sewing machine to join the pattern pieces, which she suspends before pouring in her fluid concrete mix.  She manipulates the weight, flow, elasticity and expansion, to create abstract forms with tactile surfaces which reveal the memory of their making in the straining seams.\u003cbr\u003eHer aim is to create minimal but expressive forms which are imbued with their own life and sense of movement without imitating actual identifiable creatures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Victoria Ferrand Scott","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58116887839102,"sku":null,"price":4250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/6545\/8814\/files\/VFerrandScott_Gathering_Detail__1.jpg?v=1790606489"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/6545\/8814\/collections\/viber_image_2026-02-15_10-52-26-069_f1d83315-fbaa-4190-9cc3-100729f43493.jpg?v=1790606477","url":"https:\/\/hyphacurates.com\/collections\/victoria-ferrand-scott.oembed","provider":"Hypha Curates","version":"1.0","type":"link"}