Celia Scott’s expressive, realist sculpture counters the deskilling prevalent among contemporary artists, without rejecting modernism. Her work exhibits her concerns with the relation of sculpture to collective memory and the way sculpture is displayed.

Her portrait busts are more than simply ‘portraits’ or facsimiles – they have a powerful physical and psychological presence…. for me her work has the ‘gravitas’ of classical Roman sculpture.

Michael Sandle RA, Head to Head, catalogue 2012

And so it is, in this most remarkable and original of the summer’s London gallery shows, that the sculptural genre as practiced by Celia Scott can be experienced, a practice that is increasingly attracting attention and offering prospects for a wider future.

Michael Spens, Reading the Head in Studio International, 12/6/2012