In March 1991, we started renting a semi-detached house in Three Anchor Bay. The first floor was divided into living quarter and a large painting studio, named St Bedes. The ground floor, originally the lounge and kitchen of the house, we turned into the TAB Studio for Ceramic Art. Our living quarters took up a small section on the first floor, a small bedroom adjacent to a tiny kitchen with an incredible view over the Atlantic Ocean. Karen Scott, 1991.
Our ground-floor ceramic studio on High Level Road, Three Anchor Bay. We named the studio after the small suburb, nestled in between Green Point and St Bedes. Here, Johannes, teaching a class on the art of coiling while Karen takes notes. From left to right: Karen Scott, Noni Buhler, Johannes Scott, and Rene Groenewald.
Since the early years, the studio often doubled as social venue; here, a birthday is celebrated at the lecture table, after an evening class. The door in the background leads out onto High Level Road. Early nineties, TAB Studio.
Karen partaking in the classes, early-nineties. Karen Scott – TAB Studio.
Johannes exhibiting at Cavendish Square with Ian Pels and Evette Weyers – 4 March 1992.
Johannes and Karen Scott marry in Knysna – 12 December 1992.
Cape Times, 12 December 1992.
The wedding celebration at Lagoon-side, Knysna. Johannes and Karen Scott, 1992.
A film-shoot at TAB Studio, mid-nineties, Three Anchor Bay.
18 April 1994, Karen Scott.
Volkskas Atelier Award exhibition, Association for Visual Arts, Church Street, Cape Town – 1995
Historiography, a solo exhibition by Johannes Scott at AVA Gallery, Cape Town – October 1995.
Karen Scott has her first exhibition at Alfred Mall Gallery, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town – 1995.
Alfred Mall Gallery – Karen Scott, 1995.
Historiography (Debt). Second solo exhibition in a series at AVA Gallery, Cape Town – June 1997.
TAB Studio group exhibition curated by Karen Scott. – Framery Gallery, Sea-Point, 16 July 1998.
Group exhibition curated by Karen Scott. Cape Times, 17 July 1998.
Homage to Modigliani, an exhibition by Karen Scott at Alfred Mall Gallery, Cape Town. February, 2000.
Homage to Modigliani, an exhibition by Karen Scott at Alfred Mall Gallery, Cape Town. February, 2000.
Group exhibition by Karen and Johannes Scott at Alfred Mall gallery, 2000.
TAB STUDIO 10-year anniversary. 2001
TAB Studio Showroom, Karen Scott, 2001.
TAB Studio Anniversary Event, Alfred Mall Gallery, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town.
Ceramic art by Karen and Johannes Scott, 2001.
We celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary – 12 December 2002.
Fairy Knowe Hotel, Wilderness, Karen Scott. 1996 –(polaroid)
Inhaca, Mozambique, Karen Scott. 29 Dec 1997 – (polaroid)
Stone Town Zanzibar, Tanzania, Karen Scott. 31 December 1998 – (polaroid)
Exhibition by Karen Scott at Alfred Mall Gallery. 16 April 1998 – (polaroid)
Kelvin, studio cat for 17 years received a titanium pin after breaking a leg when he was three months old, Karen Scott. 8 July 1998 – (polaroid)
A group of students from Bo-Kaap attended a workshop with Johannes Scott. 2 January 2000 – (polaroid)
On the first floor, squeezed up at the back of TAB Studio, we had the tiniest kitchen, but, being on High Level Road, it had the most amazing view across the Atlantic Ocean; Karen Scott. 9 July 1997 – (polaroid)
More than a decade after founding, the studio had provided us with a sound financial base – we purchased the property and began renovations. Here, our tiny kitchen on the third level is being transformed into an on-suit bedroom with a deck looking out over the new Green Point Stadium and Robben Island as backdrop. -TAB Studio, 2002
Below High-Level Road, we excavated the basement to establish a new enlarged studio with adjacent kiln room. -TAB Studio, 2002
We underpinned the old stone foundation, originally constructed by the British in early nineteenth century. Above, on the ground floor, we established the new St Bedes Art Showroom. -Karen Scott, 2002
Johannes constructed the studio shelves, following the timber template Bernard Leach used for his studio at St Ives, England. -Karen Scott, 2002
By 2003, the new studio was hugely successful and always fully booked. The newly found resources allowed Johannes to return to University for advanced academic studies and Karen’s successful exhibitions afforded her the role as principle instructor. -TAB Studio, 2003
Media shoot by Woolworths. Karen Scott, April 2004
TAB Studio on High-Level Road, three years after the renovations and featuring in several commercial film shoots. -2005
Art installation by Olafur Eliasson; Karen Scott. -Tate Modern London. 18 January 2004
Johannes and Karen Scott. -London, 2004
Award finalist poster advertising the public event of national selection of 100 artists’ work representing most contemporary significance in South Africa (top left corner, work by Johannes Scott). The exhibition opened at Spier Estate in December 2007 and travelled the major South African art museums during 2008. The Spier Estate purchased Scott’s entire ceramic body of work for display in their public collection.
Scott’s work on display at award finalist exhibition at Spier Estate, December 2007.
Karen Scott admiring one of the works on display at the Spier Contemporary 2010 Awards Finalist Exhibition at Cape Town City Hall.
Johannes was one of a few artists whose work was selected for both Spier Contemporary award finalist exhibitions; the second and last Spier Contemporary in 2010 was also an exhibition of 100 artists’ work selected for contemporary significance in South Africa. The exhibition opened at the Cape Town City Hall in 2010. This picture: ‘Hundreds of Cold Cubs’ (ceramic slip cast, 2010), by Johannes Scott; Karen Scott, 9 May 2010, City Hall, Cape Town .
Johannes Scott attending the ceramic exhibition by Giacinto Cerone at Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna Contemporanea. -Rome, 19 July 2011.
Karen Scott visiting the newly opened MAXXI, designed by Zaha Hadid, in Rome. -Flaminio Italy, 10 July 2011.
Illuminations. La Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale – Karen Scott, July 2011.
Karen Scott visiting the Sistine Hall of the Vatican Library, Vatican City, Rome, Italy. July 2011.
Johannes Scott – Piazza del Popolo, Rome. 10 July 2011.
Karen Scott viewing Charles Ray’s 2.4-meter-high sculpture commissioned by collector Francois Pinault for the entrance to the Grand Canal, at Punta della Dogana. The sculpture of a boy who gazes at a frog pinched between his fingers was removed later due to public complaints about nudity. – Venice, Italy. 19 July 2011.
Johannes Scott attending Julian Schnabel’s exhibition titled PERMANENTLY BECOMING AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF SEEING at Museo Correr, Venice, Italy. – 15 July 2011.
Last days at TAB STUDIO – ST BEDES, Sea Point, 2012. After two decades in the basement studio on High Level Road, the demand for ceramic classes outgrew our residential setting. We sold the residential property in 2012 and purchased a commercial property in Bo-Kaap, establishing one of the largest commercial facilities for pottery classes in South Africa.
TAB STUDIO BO-KAAP 2012. Kilns delivery; exterior of the new Bo-Kaap studio under construction – Cape Town, Winter 2012.
Installation of shelving at the new TAB STUDIO in Bo-Kaap – Cape Town, Winter 2012.
Urban Hub, exterior of our completed 2012 Bo-Kaap ceramic studio – Cape Town, Spring 2012.
Classes at our new TAB STUDIO, Bo-Kaap, 2012.
Calvin, Proxy, and Syntax settling in at our new Bo-Kaap premises – Cape Town, Spring 2012.
Karen Scott. -Giudecca, 2015
Johannes Scott attending exhibition by Cy Twombly – Paradise at Ca’Pesaro Museo Di Arte Moderna E Contemporanea, Venice 2015
Karen Scott attending the Karel Appel exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2015.
Karen Scott attending exhibition by Cy Twombly – Paradise at Ca’Pesaro Museo Di Arte Moderna E Contemporanea, Venice 2015
Karen Scott, Berlin – July 2016
Johannes Scott, Hong Kong – June 2017
The Scott’s at Coney Beach – New York, July 2017
Johannes Scott visiting Jason Jacques Gallery – New York, July 2017
Johannes Scott attending Anselm Kiefer exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, Chelsea, New York July 2017
Karen Scott, at Jason Jacques’ 'Pot Dealer' Art Gallery – New York, July 2017
The Scotts attend artivist Ai Weiwei’s exhibition HANSEL&GRETEL at New York Park Avenue Armory – about cyber surveillance and trails of cookies. Weiwei provided us with the gleaming eyeglasses, promising it would filter out all unwarranted ideologies from our vision of perception. But instead, after the camera flash, the eyeglasses blinded us with darkness.
Karen Scott attending the Manifesta exhibition in Palermo, Sicily, Italy – July 2018
26 December 2018 - Phuket, Thailand.
June 2019 – While attending the Festival of Lights installation, Karen Scott visits Torch Gallery, Amsterdam.
30 December 2019 – Anchored on the Amstel River, the Scott’s spend the December holidays on De Witte Raaf, the houseboat on which Jasper Grootfeld established his Lowland Weed Company in 1971.
25 December 2019, Koninklijk Paleis, Amsterdam.
May 13, 2020, Cape Town. Every other day, at dawn, we utilise the COVID-19 exercise limit by taking the steep, Lion Street Heritage Staircase route up to Military Road, towards the Noon-Day-Gun. Twenty minutes later, and we turn back here, below Signal Hill, at the oldest Olive Trees in Historic Bo-Kaap. –13 May 2020, Cape Town.
June 2022 - Completing a ten-year lease at Urban Hub and after five months of COVID lockdown, the Scott’s relocate their ceramic studio to a heritage site in Bo-Kaap, naming it GRACHT.
12 June 2024 - After a lengthy COVID financial recovery and during Gracht’s mid-year semester break, the Scott’s return to Venice, staying on the second floor of a local residence on Paludo S. Antonio, adjacent to Giardini Napoleonici.
19 June 2024 – Karen Scott shopping on Fondamenta S. Anna, Venice.
La Biennale di Venezia 2024, Arsenale – The Scott’s attend the 60th edition of the International Art Exhibition.
21 June 2024 – Platja de Sant Sebastia, Barcelona, Spain.
26 June 2024 – Karen Scott, Carrer del Veguer, Gothic Quarter, Barcelona.
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