Paula MacArthur explained
Paula MacArthur |
Birth Place: | Enfield, England |
Occupation: | Artist |
Website: | http://www.paula-macarthur.com/ |
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] [6] [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)[11] [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
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Paula MacArthur . re-title.com . 2016-06-02.
- Web site: John Moores 18 . Walker Art Gallery. 1993 . 2016-06-02.
- Web site: 'Frederick-Sanger' by Paula MacArthur (1991) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220922234018/https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw08253/Frederick-Sanger . 22 September 2022 . 2 June 2016 . National Portrait Gallery.
- Dominiczak . Marek H. . 1 July 2011 . International Year of Chemistry 2011: The Importance of Sequences . . en . 57 . 7 . 1088–1089 . 10.1373/clinchem.2011.167338 . 0009-9147. free .
- Web site: Paula MacArthur . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230306002354/https://www.contemporarybritishpainting.com/paula-macarthur/ . 6 March 2023 . 5 March 2023 . . en-GB.
- Web site: Priseman Seabrook Collection: British Prints, Drawings and Photographs More About - About the Venue . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230306004330/https://artuk.org/visit/venues/priseman-seabrook-collection-british-prints-drawings-and-photographs-7908 . 6 March 2023 . 5 March 2023 . . en.
- Web site: About . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230306004708/https://www.priseman-seabrook.org/home/about/ . 6 March 2023 . 5 March 2023 . Priseman Seabrook . en-GB.
- Web site: news . NUCA . 2016-06-02.
- Web site: artist-group. dlwp . 2016-06-02.
- Web site: 1 August 2022 . Paula MacArthur: Artist of the Month . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221201230629/https://www.contemporarybritishpainting.com/paula-macarthur-artist-of-the-month/ . 1 December 2022 . 5 March 2023 . . en-GB.
- Web site: 14 November 2022 . New Botanical Exhibition comes to Huddersfield Art Gallery . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230113074823/https://kirkleestogether.co.uk/2022/11/14/new-botanical-exhibition-comes-to-huddersfield-art-gallery/ . 13 January 2023 . 5 March 2023 . Kirklees Together . en-GB.
- Web site: 20 November 2022 . Do you see art or graffiti? A new botanical exhibition has opened at Huddersfield Art Gallery . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221120133028/https://huddersfieldhub.co.uk/do-you-see-art-or-graffiti-a-new-botanical-exhibition-has-opened-at-huddersfield-art-gallery/ . 20 November 2022 . 5 March 2023 . Huddersfield Hub . en-GB.
- Web site: 2016 . Slippery and Amorphous . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221128041935/https://www.artrabbit.com/events/slippery-amorphous-2016 . 28 November 2022 . 2 June 2016 . Art Rabbit .
- Web site: 2015 . Slippery and Amorphous . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160624101434/http://marylebonejournal.com/culture/slippery-and-amorphous-at-the-crypt . 24 June 2016 . 2 June 2016 . Marylebone Journal .
- Web site: Philo . Ruth . 7 January 2016 . This Year's Model . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230306013947/https://www.axisweb.org/p/ruthphilo/event/4414-this-years-model/ . 6 March 2023 . 5 March 2023 . Axis.
- Web site: 9 February 2015 . Atom Gallery showcases all-female exhibition Disturbance 28 February – 8 March . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160803170059/http://www.johnjones.co.uk/news/2015/02/atom-gallery-showcases-all-female-exhibition-disturbance-28-february-8-marc/ . 3 August 2016 . 2 June 2016 . John Jones .
- Web site: Carey-Kent . Paul . 18 February 2014 . Paul's Art Stuff on a Train #42: 'Love in the City' . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200919190322/http://fadmagazine.com/2014/02/18/art-stuff-on-a-train-42-love-in-the-city/ . 19 September 2020 . 2 June 2016 . FAD Magazine .
- Web site: Paula MacArthur . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220701051459/https://artuk.org/discover/artists/macarthur-paula-b-1967-34505 . 1 July 2022 . 2 June 2016 . .
- Web site: The Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160424035947/http://www.contemporarybritishpainting.com/wordpress/?page_id=2388 . 24 April 2016 . 2 June 2016 . .