Painter
· Born in 1967
- United Kingdom
Paula Mac Arthur
41 Artworks
Paula Mac Arthur
United Kingdom
« The difference between making the painting and looking at the painting allows me to access different parts of myself. »
Paula MacArthur is a British painter based in Rye, East Sussex. She trained at the Royal Academy Schools in London, graduating in 1993, where she received the Royal Academy Schools Prize for Painting. Paula's current work focuses on the light and luminous colours of gemstones and minerals; each specimen is captured in the spotlight, inviting the viewer to pause for a moment of quiet reflection.
Credentials
- Major permanent collection
- Prizewinner
- Residency Participant
- Works on commission
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Born
- 1967
- Mediums
- Painter
Jackson's Art Prize- Judge's Choice Award, selected by Matthew Burrows MBE- London, United Kingdom
London Festival Fringe Art Award- Winner- London, United Kingdom
John Moores 18- Winner- Liverpool, United Kingdom
Royal Academy Schools Prize for painting- Winner- London, United Kingdom
John Player Portrait Award- Winner- London, United Kingdom
Still Light / Rye Art Gallery - Rye, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Verse: inverse, obverse, converse, reverse / The Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery - Sevenoaks, Kent, United Kingdom
Resonance & wonder / Rye Creative Centre Gallery - East Sussex, United Kingdom
50/100 / Unit 1 Gallery Workshop - London, United Kingdom
Silent Disco / Greystone Industries - Wickham Market, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Darkness Visible / APT Gallery - London, United Kingdom
Common Ground / The Old Gym - Rye, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Slow Painting: Cultural Landscapes / Studio Kind - Barnstaple, Devon, United Kingdom
50/50 / Unit 1 Gallery Workshop - London, United Kingdom
Start with Something / Bridewell Studios Gallery - Liverpool, United Kingdom
Assembly / The Old Gym - Rye, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Embracement / Tin Man Art - Online, United Kingdom
Of Lightness / Blyth Gallery, Imperial College - London, United Kingdom
Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting / 20-21 Visual Arts Centre - Scunthorpe, United Kingdom
Entwined, Plants in Contemporary Painting / Huddersfield Art Gallery - Art Gallery, United Kingdom
Rogue Women 2 / Rogue Artists Studios - Manchester, United Kingdom
X, Ten Years of Contemporary British Painting / Newcastle Contemporary Art Gallery - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Paint Fiction / International Gallery Of Contemporary Art - Anchorage, Alaska, United Kingdom
Arcadia for all? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now / Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester - Leicester, United Kingdom
Arcadia for all? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now / Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds - Leeds, United Kingdom
Of Lightness / Blyth Gallery, Imperial College - London, United Kingdom
The London Group Open 2023 / Copeland Gallery - London, United Kingdom
At Cross Purposes curated by Dr Frances Woodley / Aberystwyth University Gallery, Oriel Môn Anglesey, QSS Gallery Belfast, Elysium Gallery Swansea - Belfast, United Kingdom
Im/material bodies / Sluice HQ, Hackney - London, United Kingdom
Contemporary British Painting / The Hostry, The Catherdral - Norwich, United Kingdom
Made in Britain / National Museum - Gdańsk, Poland
Beep Painting Prize 2018 / Swansea College of Art - Swansea, United Kingdom
Paint North / Lady Beck Project Space - Leeds, United Kingdom
In the Future, curated by Rosalind Davis / Collyer Bristow Gallery, 4 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4TF - London, United Kingdom
Contemporary British Painting Winter Exhibition / The Crypt - London, United Kingdom
Contemporary Masters From Britain / The Yantai Art Museum - Yantai, China
Contemporary British Painting Summer Exhibition / Art Bermondsey Project Space - London, United Kingdom
Slippery & Amorphous / Art Helix Brooklyn - New York, United States
This Year's Model / Studio 1.1 - London, United Kingdom
Disturbance / Atom Gallery - London, United Kingdom
Cold on the outside / Willowbank Crescent - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Disturbance / Atom Gallery - London, United Kingdom
Creekside Open / APT Gallery - London, United Kingdom
Adam Fenton’s Painting Club / No Format Gallery - Woolwich, United Kingdom
Undead Painters / ASC Gallery - London, United Kingdom
Right Here, Right Now / Rye Studio - East Sussex, United Kingdom
Correspond / Turps Art School - London, United Kingdom
Le Voci Ritrovate / Castello di Monti - Corigliano d’Otranto, Italy
Crash Open Salon / Charlie Dutton Gallery - London, United Kingdom
20 Painters / Phoenix Gallery - Brighton, United Kingdom
Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition / Zeitgeist Arts Projects - London, United Kingdom
Off the Wall / The 9th Terrace Annual Open - London, United Kingdom
Correspond / Turps Art School - London, United Kingdom
Zeitgeist Open ZAP / ASC Studios - London, United Kingdom
Le Voci Ritrovate / Castello di Monti - Corigliano d’Otranto, Italy
OVERHE(a)R(e) / Aplomb Gallery - Chicago, United States
Tasty Modern / Schwartz Gallery - London, United Kingdom
Covert and Obscured / Frances Bardsley Gallery - Romford, United Kingdom
The Open West / Newark Park - Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
The Femail Project / The Article Gallery - Birmingham, United Kingdom
The Open West / Cheltenham Art Gallery - Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Lion and Lamb Gallery / Sluice Art Fair - London, United Kingdom
Seeing in the Dark / The Fletcher Centre - East Sussex, United Kingdom
The Perfect Nude / Exeter Phoenix Gallery - London, United Kingdom
ALAS Autumn Residency Exhibition / Matt Roberts Arts - London, United Kingdom
Minutiae / The Stone Space - London, United Kingdom
Seeing in the Dark / The Fletcher Centre - East Sussex, United Kingdom
What the Folk Say / Compton Verney - Warwickshire, United Kingdom
London Festival / Fringe Art Award - London, United Kingdom
A Thousand Words / Art in Romney Marsh - London, United Kingdom
Four Self Portrait Artists exhibition & residency / Walker Art Gallery - Liverpool, United Kingdom
Royal Academy Schools Post-Graduates / Grassimuseum - Leipzig, Germany
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition / Royal Academy - London, United Kingdom
Young Contemporaries / Whitworth Art Gallery - Manchester, United Kingdom
Graham Crowley- I Don’t Like Art; Studies in value and meaning
PADA Artist-in-Residence - Barreiro, Lisbon, Portugal
Le Voci Ritrovate - Corigliano d’Otranto, Puglia, Italy
Brilliant Cut - Eastbourne, United Kingdom
Turps Art School Correspondents Resisdency - Finnskogen, Norway
ALAS Residency Matt Robert’s Arts - London, United Kingdom
Four Self Portrait Artists - Liverpool, United Kingdom
Jiangsu Museum of Art, China
Goodnestone Park, United Kingdom
Chadwicks, United Kingdom
National Portrait Gallery, United Kingdom
Baron and Baroness von Oppenheim, United Kingdom
Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, United Kingdom
Ted Baker, United Kingdom
Loughborough Grammar School, United Kingdom
Double Tree Hilton Hotel, United Kingdom
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