Paul Carter

Paul Carter (4 March 1970 – 12 August 2006) was a Scottish artist known for his constructions. After his untimely death he was described in The Scotsman newspaper as "an important contemporary Scottish artist, and an inspiration both to his peers and his students."

Carter was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1990 he graduated in Sculpture from Edinburgh College of Art with first-class honours. According to his obituary by artist Robert Montgomery, he would "be remembered as an artist whose work opened up the sometimes narrow critical discourse of post-conceptual art in Scotland in the 1990s to questions of science, spirituality, politics and God."

Carter died in a car crash near Gosford House, East Lothian, on 12 August 2006 aged 36.

Publications The Embassy Gallery