Mim Scala

Scala’s studio is nestled among the horses and their stables on his property. This emersion with the
horses has served as the basis for many of his sculptures including the first one he completed, Prancing
Horse I (2014) where the animal playfully springs into the air, a scene Scala is very familiar with from
working each day alongside them. Similarly, Work Horse (2014) was inspired by the working horse
championships in Ireland. Scala captures the intense force of the horse moving forwards, muscles taught,
devoting all its strength into forging ahead.
There is an inherent sense of motion and vibrancy in each work despite being still objects. Scala’s
sculptures recall Umberto Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity into Space (1913) where the form
seems to propel itself into space. Similarly, Scala’s sculptures dynamically occupy space and capture a
fleeting moment in the flow of movement.
Due to Scala’s severe dyslexia he learns best through doing. He begins his creative process with images
and it is the synthesis of intense observation and molding the materials in front of him that he begins to
create. Scala creates a wire armature and then applies French wax to the framework slowly building up
the mass of each sculptur...

Sixties London, street corners, Morocco, Spain, Sri Lanka, India all taught me something interesting

The Eleven Gallery solo exhibition of bronze sculptures October 2014

The Blue House Gallery Schull Cork 2015