Special stamps mark Patrick Scott Centenary

20 January 2021

Patrick Scott HRHA was an Irish artist renowned for his geometric gold leaf paintings.  Born in Kilbrittain, Co Cork in 1921, Scott trained as an architect and painted in his spare time.  In the 1940s he painted décor for the Gate Theatre in Dublin and also painted tapestries and carpets. In 1960 he became a full time artist and that same year was a winner of a National Prize at the Guggenheim International Award. 

Scott’s work has been exhibited around the world.  His work features in many public and private collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Gulf Oil Corporation, Pittsburgh; Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin; Ulster Museum, Belfast and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.
 
Scott represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 1960 and is an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Art. He is recognised as one of the first advocates of pure abstraction in Irish art and a major contributor of modernist design in Ireland and elected a Saoi of Aosdána in 2007.