Patrick St.Paul | The Work
Statement
Patrick StPaul abandoned a successful career in advertising ten years ago.
He joined a community of artists and musicians in remote Scotland and spent a year living rough in the mountains. During this time StPaul began constructing creatures. Bones found in the hills, old photographs, road-kill and machine parts all came together in creations that were part human, part furniture, all strange.
He once drove 700 miles to retrieve the spine of a sheep from a mountainside. Another time he returned home with a car-load of crashed aeroplane.
In 2006 StPaul returned to London to a studio in South London which rapidly overflowed with bric-a-brac and body parts.
Patrick StPaul was born in Hertfordshire in 1962 and brought up in Kent. He studied at Medway and at Exeter College of Art and Design and has lectured at UAL Camberwell, Plymouth, Birmingham Universities.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2012 |
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Next: Gothic at OCCCA, Santa Ana, California USA Forthcoming: Wunderkabinett, Store Street Gallery, London Past and Present, Occupy, London Ascension, Octagon Gallery, London
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2011 |
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The Other Art Fair, Bargehouse London Interventions – Arch Gallery, Deptford X
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2008 |
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The Cost of Living - Arch Gallery, Deptford.
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2007 |
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Red Wire Open, Liverpool
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2006 |
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Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London
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2005 |
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The House Show, Stoke Newington, London
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2004 |
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The End of the Pier Show, Crovie, Aberdeenshire
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1995 |
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New Work, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, work in collaboration with James Brook
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1994 |
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John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool, work in collaboration with James Brook
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AWARDS |
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Deptford X Photography Award 2007
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