Victoria Ferrand Scott is a sculptor working from her studio near Tadcaster in North Yorkshire. Her work is often abstract, exploring forms of indeterminable identity which seem to have their own inner life, open to diverse interpretation. She likes to retain a certain mystery as to the origins of the pieces, often provoking the question “but what is it?”. The viewer can come up with their own associations and references but the work remains enigmatic.

She is drawn to working with materials of fluid origin such as concrete, plaster, clay, wax and bronze which when poured or thrown, retain their own inner character. She aims to draw out the inherent nature of the materials by working with them but allowing them to do their own thing, within constraints.

Concrete is often considered a brutalist construction material which needs to be engineered into rigid forms in order to maintain control of its weight and volume. Victoria however makes flexible forming from layers of latex or stretchy dress fabrics. Spandex and lycra are cut and stitched to create receptacles to receive the flowing concrete. The tailored moulds expand and the smooth concrete pushes at the seams, stretching the limits, sometimes to bursting point. When cured and stripped of their fabric skin, the concrete sculptures, like natural organic forms, reveal the way in which they have grown and bulged. They retain the texture of the process employed, whether smooth as marble from a latex skin or woven and stitched from fabric forming.

Elected a Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2009, she undertook a Leverhulme Artist Residency in the School of Engineering at Leeds University in 2010-2011, researching working with concrete and flexible forming. She has been an artist in education for two decades at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Her work has been selected for exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition and at the Royal Society of Sculptors in London, as well as the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol. She also shows regularly at many venues in the north of England from Cathedrals and Mills to Country Parks with the Yorkshire Sculptors Group.