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Legacy
Scott was very well known for building art that doesn’t look like anything from real life and changing the way things are designed in Ireland. Patrick studied how to be an architect in University College Dublin and he later worked with Michael Scott and Signa Design Consultancy to do a graphic design course. But later in life he realised his passion was for painting and focused on that full time. He won a honour at the Guggenheim International Awards and represented Ireland in Venice for a big art event.

Scott’s art was unique in that it looked nothing like normal art. An example of this was a painting he did called “Red Device”. He was also very well known for some of his work in architecture such as the black and orange colours of CIE trains and pretty mosaics at Busáras terminal.

Scott was given the title of Saoi of Aosdana in 2007 and had many art exhibitions in places such as The Hugh Lane, Douglas Hyde Gallery and Dublin City Gallery in 1982, 2002 and 2014. The exhibition in Hugh Lane really showed how Scott had developed as an artist over the many years. The IMMA have displayed Scott’s work throughout his lifetime and when he died in 2014 that had a big art exhibition to display the work and life of Patrick Scott.

Scott never cared about becoming famous or how much money he made, he only ever cared about the art he made and try inspire people by his work. His work was never showy but just simple and unique.

Once Scott had died people looked over his life and studied the legacy and the impact that he made. He had such a major impact on Ireland and its landscape that people wanted for an archive to be made with all of Patrick Scott’s finest work. But even though he is now dead, the legacy of Patrick Scott will carry on for many years to come due to the landscape of Ireland and his impact in developing this.