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British painter
Paula MacArthur (born 1967 in
Enfield, London
[1]) is an English artist. MacArthur was joint first prize winner in 1989 of the ‘John Player Portrait Award’ at the
National Portrait Gallery, London with
Tai-Shan Schierenberg. In 1993 she graduated from the
Royal Academy of Arts where she was awarded the ‘Royal Academy Schools Prize for Painting’, that same year she was a prize winner of ‘Liverpool John Moores 18’.
[2] Her work is held in numerous collections including The
National Portrait Gallery, London
[3]
[4] the collection of Baron and Baroness von Oppenheim and
The Priseman Seabrook Collection.
[5]
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[7]
MacArthur has lectured on her work at the
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool,
Norwich University of the Arts,
[8]
Jerwood Gallery, Hastings and Glasgow Artist Guild. She ran the
De La Warr Pavilion ‘Artist Critique Group’ until 2019.
[9]
MacArthur's recent work has focused on painting gem stones and crystals.
[10]
Selected exhibitions
- "Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting"
Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, England (2022)
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[12]
- “Slippery & Amorphous” The Crypt,
St Marylebone Parish Church (2016)
[13]
[14]
- “This Year's Model” Studio 1.1, London (2016)
[15]
- “Undead Painters” ASC Gallery, London (2015)
- “Creekside Open”
Art in Perpetuity Trust (APT Gallery), London (2015)
- “Disturbance” Atom Gallery, London (2015)
[16]
- “OVERHE(a)R(e)” Carnegie Library, London (2015)
- “Infinitely Precious Things” VJB Arts, London (2014)
[17]
- “Q14”
Art in Perpetuity Trust (APT Gallery), London (2014)
- “OVERHE(a)R(e)” Aplomb Gallery, Chicago, USA (2014)
- “Le Voci Ritrovate” Castello di Monti, Corigliano d’Otranto, Italy (2014)
- “Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition” Zeitgeist Arts Projects, London (2014)
- “The Femail Project” The Article Gallery,
Birmingham City University (2013)
- “Tasty Modern” Schwartz Gallery, London (2013)
- “Minutiae” The Stone Space, London (2012)
- “What the Folk Say”
Compton Verney, Warwickshire (2011)
- “Remasters” The Rag Factory, London (2010)
- “Four Self Portrait Artists”
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (1994)
- “
Royal Academy of Arts Post-Graduates” Grassimuseum, Leipzig, Germany (1993)
- “Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition”
Royal Academy of Arts, London (1991)
- “Young Contemporaries”
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (1989)
Selected collections
Awards
References
External links
- Paula MacArthur
[2]
- Artslant
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