Joyce Scott

Joyce Scott FRSASA 'is an Australian artist working in drawing, oil painting and ceramics.' 'She has held ten independent exhibitions, is represented internationally and has received five awards.' She '... received a Diploma of Design, Ceramics and a Graduate Diploma of Education (Art) from the Adelaide College of Art, and later qualified for a Bachelor of Education from the South Australian College of Advanced Education.'

'A long-running relationship between the artist and Greenhill Galleries commenced with her first exhibition in 1974.'

'In awarding ... [Scott] first prize for the 1974 Carillion City Festival Ceramics Award, judge Kenneth Hood, then Curator of Decorative Arts and Senior Curator at the National Gallery of Victoria, described her entry as of "exceptional quality" and said: "Joyce Scott was clearly a potter of major talent ... [who] manages to combine a feeling of massiveness with a sense of lightness, even elegance, and the combination of the two is exceedingly satisfying .. The pot springs up from its small base and its almost circular contour is modified and altered in one or two places in the most subtle way. The whole pot was covered with a glaze which has considerable variation of tone and colour".'

As a young artist and teacher, Scott was engaged in the political transformations of the 1970s. The United Nations declared 1975 to be International Women’s Year, with conferences and celebrations held worldwide, including a broad programme of events in Adelaide, South Australia. As part those activities, Scott participated in an exhibition of women artists held at the Adelaide Festival Centre.

Later that year, Scott took part in a delegation of Australian potters as guests of the People's Republic of China. The party of 10, led by Australian Potter Ivan McMeekin and accompanied by Diplomat Geoffrey Marginson, spent 35 days studying pottery techniques in urban and regional settings. This delegation formed part of cultural exchanges consequent to the opening of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1972.

Scott held her first major exhibition outside her home state at Solander Gallery, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Rowland Richardson, Head, North Adelaide School of Art, reviewed the opening in the Spring 1978 edition of Pottery in Australia. He wrote that ‘The forms are mainly hand built with dry or matt "earth" glazes sprayed on. The sun, usually seen as a negative form, is often surrounded with a lattice of clay depicting the shimmering, radiating heat. A sun which bakes dry the landscape, but is still very much at the centre of it. However, the more recent work has a totemic feel to it. It is stronger, more geometric, and is decorated with a formal engobe pattern. [Joyce Scott] is a thoroughly professional artist, sketching a lot, determinedly independent and unaffected by fashions. I believe she is one of the few ceramic artists who have been able to imbue their work with a uniquely Australian feel.’

'As part of an ongoing relationship with the political left, in the early 1980s Scott donated artwork to exhibition fundraisers of the Australian Labor Party.' from the then Leader of the Opposition, John Bannon, records her contribution.

Subsequently, '... in 1983, the late John Bannon, then Premier of South Australia, opened an exhibition of Scott’s ceramics at Bonython Art Gallery.' 'The exhibition was reviewed by Stephen Skillitzi in the Spring 1983 edition of S.A. Crafts. Skillitzi, then Lecturer in Charge of Ceramics at the South Australia School of Art, praised the 'intrinsic warmth and richness of clay, amber and black oxides, and white glaze are fused into composites that are bold in their simplicity and yet rich in their delicate detail of applied brushed and incised textural patterns and line and soft torn clay slab additions.’ After surveying a number of individual artworks, Skillitzi concluded ‘These strongly conceived yet delicately executed and cogent statements in stoneware underline Joyce Scott’s gradual refinement and maturation into a ceramic artist with significant vision.’ In correspondence to the artist about the exhibits, Australian painter and 'master of contemporary landscape' Geoff Wilson magnanimously observed 'you show the same fascinating ease with your drawings as with your ceramics. I wouldn't dare tackle such complex subjects.' He further commended Scott on the 'rewarding success' of selling all exhibited works.

'During the late 1980s and early 1990s Scott lectured in the School of Art and Design Education at the University of South Australia.' 'She coordinated Units in Sculpture, Clay, Glaze Technology, Visual Research and Core Studies across all years of the Graduate Programme.'

‘In 1986 and ’89 her work gained international recognition, and among her achievements she received two Honourable Mentions in the form of certificates presented for outstanding achievement at [both] the First and Second International Ceramics Contests in Nagoya, [Mino], Japan. Her work has since been acquired by a number of state and international art museums’ said Dr Noris Ioannou. 'Japanese pottery and porcelain is acknowledged as the world’s finest and Scott amplified her international recognition with an Honorable Certificate, Silver Prize at the 1988 International Pottery Exhibition of The Japanese Pottery Association, Tokyo.'

Rockhampton Art Gallery Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Adelaide College of the Arts and Education Artbank, Australia Arts Council of Bunbury Museum of Contemporary Ceramics, Grottaglia, Italy South Australian Studio Potters Collection Jupiters Hotel and Casino Hyatt Regency, Adelaide And private collections in Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Italy, Japan and the United States.

Exhibitions

Independent Between 1974 and 1993, Scott held nine ceramics exhibitions: Greenhill Galleries, SA, 1974 Greenhill Galleries, SA, 1976 Solander Galleries, ACT, 1978 Greenhill Galleries, SA, 1980, Opened by Dr Gregor Ramsey, Director, ACAE Bonython Gallery, SA, 1983, Opened by the Hon. John Bannon, Premier, SA Greenhill Galleries, WA, 1987 Greenhill Galleries, SA, 1988, Opened by Sir Rupert Hamer, KCMG Kensington Gallery, SA, 1993, Opened by Patti Warashina, USA Artist

In 1985 she presented Wild Grass, an exhibition of drawing at Greenhill Galleries, SA, opened by Dr John Skull, Dean, SACAE.

Group

Joyce Scott has exhibited in numerous invitation exhibitions in all Australian States. These include: Mitchell Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, New South Wales, 1974 Australian Craft, touring Australia and abroad, 1978 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Greenhill Galleries, 1982 National Ceramics Conference Exhibition, Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, South Australia, 1983 Darling Downs National Ceramics Award, Queensland, 1984 Autumn Drift, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 1984 Kensington Gallery, South Australia, mixed media exhibition, 1990 Adelaide Festival of Arts, Kensington Gallery, South Australia, 1998 An Old Salt, Oil painting; Salt of the Earth, SALA Festival and the Royal South Australian Society of Arts, The Innocent, Oil painting; Point of View, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Sounds of Silence, Pencil on cartridge; Monochromatic, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Sheppie on a Persian Rug, Oil painting; Out of the Box, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Let's Go, Oil painting; Rainy Days, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Memories, Oil painting; Captured Moments, SALA Festival Premonition, Oil painting; Caring For Our Planet, 7th Solar Art Prize, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, The Young Violinist, Oil painting; Proud To Be 160, RSASA Anniversary Exhibition, Artworks by Significant Past Members, 2016 opened by His Excellency the Honourable Hieu Van Le AC Governor of South Australia Adelaide Remembers, Oil painting; Authentic Adelaide, Adelaide Town Hall, RSASA, 2016 opened by The Lady Mayoress Genevieve Theseira-Haese, Adelaide City Council Imagine If This Was You, Oil painting; Imagine, RSASA, 2017 Graduation, Oil painting; Winds of Change, RSASA, 2017 Gypsy and Sheppie, Oil painting; Wet, Wild & Woolly, RSASA, 2017 For Ever, Oil painting; New Life, RSASA, 2017 Turquoise and Gold, Ceramics ; A Family Affair, RSASA, 2017 Tranquility, Oil on Board; A Walk in the Park, RSASA, Summer 2018

Publications

International

The Masters of Modern Ceramics 1986, Faenza, Italy La Ceramica Moderna, Italy, 1987 Heat Wave, ʼ88 International Pottery Exhibition, Tokyo 2a Biennale Internazionale Di Ceramica Contemporanae Ceramic Landscapes, Crafts Arts International, 1989 Whirl Wind, 2nd International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan, 1989 Eye of the Sun, Crafts Arts International, 1995

Australian

Pottery in Australia: Greenhill Galleries, 1974 Festival of Arts Exhibition, 1976

Solandar Gallery, 1978 Daybreak, 1980 Festival Craft Exhibition, 1982 Olive Earth, 1987 Greenhill Galleries, 1987 Capturing the Wonder of Nature's Lifecycle, 1995 Force Intensified, Australian Crafts, 1977 Potters' Directory & Information Book, 1981 Cameo Reflections, S.A. Crafts, 1983 Craft Australia: year book 1984 Ceramics in South Australia 1836-1986, from Folk to Studio Pottery, 1986

Adelaide Festival of Arts ʼ88, Art and Australia, 1987 International Mino Exhibition, Japan, Craft Australia, 1987 South Australian Ceramic Inglewood Award 1988

Craft Arts Maganize, Annual Buyers' Guide Supplement 1988-89 Artfile, 1992 Kalori, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, 2016, Cover page and feature article Members Sketchbook II, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, 2016, Two page survey A Visual History: The Royal South Australian Society of Arts, 1856-2016, Volume One A Visual History: The Royal South Australian Society of Arts, 1856-2016, Volume Two, Two page entry