Freedom and Discipline: Sculpture by Tim Scott

APT Gallery, Deptford, London, SE8 4SA

Exhibition opening and book launch: 17 July 2025, 6-8pm

Curator tour by Sam Cornish: 19 July 2025, 2pm

Exhibition open 17 July – 27 July

Tim Scott was one of the most inventive and original British sculptors to emerge in the 1960s. Curated by Sam Cornish, this exhibition juxtaposes significant examples of Scott’s work from the 1960s and 1970s with recent drawings and sculptures in plywood.

Freedom and Discipline launches a publication on his seminal sculptures of the 1960s: Ten Sculptures by Tim Scott 1961-1971. Published by Sansom & Co, 10 essays by Sam Cornish introduce key works from this first decade of Scott’s career, with a foreword by Tim’s contemporary William Tucker.

The exhibition includes three sculptures loaned from the Estate of Scott’s lifelong friend Anthony Caro (1924-2013). Amongst these is Peach Wheels (1961-62), previously exhibited in the era defining exhibitions New Generation: Sculpture (Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1965) and Primary Structures (Jewish Museum, New York, 1966).