An
exclusive interview with the talented Alexander
Paul.
What are
you working on at the moment?
I have
begun sealing wooden surfaces and drafting out structures with pen. If the
method used to construct a composition gifts a solid enough foundation then I
might be able to address it in oil. Drawings contain key information. The more
I make, the greater choice I will have in the moments applying heavier
materials. From my drawing and painting I will try to form prints, sculptures
and creative text.
What else
should we know about you and your work?
I was
serious when I got to Glasgow in 2005 but I hadn't quite appreciated the size,
scale and detail of the task in hand. After three years I sounded the retreat
and ran away. I came back from Australia in 2009 and in preparing for my final
year I found a studio at the end of our road in Macclesfield. That is, I
suppose, when the seriousness took hold. It would certainly signify the
beginning of what I would call a serious engagement with the practical business
of getting on with it. In those moments I found a clear focus which has
remained with me.
What are
your goals for the future, both work wise and life?
My goals
are to continue with my current practice in the studio and plan for my first
exhibition tour planned for 2016/17.
What’s your
favorite piece of work that you have created?
Plans for
The AfterLife, 2010. To date it is the largest painting I have produced. I
wouldn't say that it is my best work but on a personal level I would have to
choose it because of the great freedom I enjoyed in the making of it. Freedom
of expression and of movement, and in that freedom I shed or debunked the
constraints I felt upon me at the time. I believe it produced a lively,
colourful and ultimately a great freedom within me.
Short Cv
Born 1986,
Cheshire, UK
EDUCATION
Manchester
Grammar School 1998 - 2005
Glasgow
School of Art 2005-9 & 2009/10
BA(Hons)
Painting and Printmaking
Exhibitions
2010-15
Group show,
Transmission Gallery Glasgow, UK
Crompton
Mill Group Exhibition, Manchester, UK
Bloom
Gallery Open Exhibition, Manchester, UK
Group Show,
Ironbbratz Studios, Glasgow, UK
New
Contemporaries Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Uk
2005-10
Royal
Glasgow Institute New Graduates Exhibition, Kelly Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Degree
Show, Mackintosh building, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
Crompton
Mill Group Exhibition, Manchester, UK
Group
Exhibitions, Newberry Tower, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
Albatross
Gallery Group Exhibition, Cheshire, UK
Artist
Statement
My creative
interests are born out across painting and drawing. I tend to thrive off the
plasticity of my materials and their use as language. I focus on the creative
power of the imagination, its relationship with reality and the virility of its
influence upon our experiences. I explore both the dangerous and welcome
outcomes of the mind's creations and their progressions into the physical world
around us.
I utilise
the obfuscation of imagery, the deliberate hiding and concealing to confuse or
to distract from the actual, in order to present the truth as actively
illusive. It is a process by which the debunking of falsehoods assaults
perceived realities of the mind and it’s ability to distort information. The task
therefore becomes an increasingly difficult one of deciphering what is real and
what is not real. This is applied with spontaneity and compulsion, a streaming
subconsciousness, so the work is created instinctively.
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