Cork In 50 Artworks, No 24: Small Rosc Symbol, by Patrick Scott
The late Patrick Scott, pictured at the Fenton Gallery, Cork. Picture: Maurice O'Mahony
Patrick Scott’s Small Rosc Symbol was made as a design motif for the first Rosc exhibition of international art in Dublin in 1967. Infamously, neither this iteration of Rosc – nor the second, in 1971 – featured the work of any Irish artists in the actual exhibition, so Scott alone had the distinction of having his work associated with it.
His involvement came about through his first career, as an architect. Scott, born to a farming family in Kilbrittain, Co Cork, on January 4, 1921, trained in architecture at University College Dublin. He worked in the practice of Michael Scott (no relation) for many years, designing the mosaics at the Busárus terminal in Dublin, among other projects.
