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Paul Housley

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Paul Housley is born in (1964) Stalybridge, Manchester in the United Kingdom. He is one of the leading new figurative painters in the UK, showing throughout his country and Europe. The recent work has seen the artist return to a number of recurring themes, the traditional genres of Portraiture and Still Life's being amongst them and the iconography of Painting. He makes several references to old masters and explores the romantic image of the Artist. The studio itself has become an important motif and is represented not only as the artists place of work and natural habitat but also as a physiological space. Objects and images are brought to the studio where they are gradually absorbed, becoming covered with paint over a period of time in preparation to enter the work. The artist uses the detritus of studio bound objects to form allegorical still life's. The exact nature of the moral of the tale is never specified, the object(s) often acting as sympathetic representative substitutes of the human figure.

Housley studied fine arts at Sheffield City Polytechnic (BA) and painting at the Royal College of Art in London (MA). His work has been exhibited at Poppy Sebire, London (2011), AKINCI, Amsterdam (2010), Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London (2008), Waygood Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (2003), Leeds City Art Gallery and James Hockey Gallery (2001). He participated in group exhibitions at White Colums, New York (2011) and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (2010).