Art on a Postcard x St Wilfrid's Hospice: The Postcards II

About

Paula MacArthur is a painter, trained at the Royal Academy & Turps Art Schools and was a John Moores Painting Prize winner in 1993. She exhibits nationally and internationally; and works from her studio in Rye, East Sussex.

The current focus of Paula’s work is crystals and jewels, these are explorations of colour and light, a contemporary response to Dutch 17th century Pronkstilleven painting - ostentatious still life. Solitary, precious stones are captured in the spotlight, displayed as icons which lure us in and quietly invite us to investigate the multifaceted associations we bring to these treasures.

Education

1993 
Royal Academy Schools, Post-Graduate Diploma, Fine Art Painting 
1990 
Loughborough College of Art and Design, BA Hons, Fine Art Painting

Select Exhibitions/Awards

Paula was a prizewinner at John Moore’s Painting Prize in 1993 and first prize winner at the National Portrait Gallery Portrait Award in 1989. 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022   
Still Light, Rye Art Gallery, East Sussex
2018   
Verse: Inverse, obverse, converse, reverse, Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery
2017   
Resonance & wonder, with songs by Tine Louise Kortermand, Rye Creative Centre
2014   
Infinitely Precious Things, VJB Arts at 60 Threadneedle Street, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023   
X - Contemporary British Painting, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne NE1 1EW until Saturday 17 June
2023   
Rogue Women 2, Rogue Artists’ Studios, Manchester until 28 May
2023   
At Cross Purposes, book and touring exhibition curated by Dr Frances Woodley started at Aberystwyth University Museum Gallery and continues to Oriel Ynys Môn, Anglesey, QSS Studios Gallery, Belfast 7 - 28 September 2023 and Elysium Gallery, Swansea 11 Nov - 23 Dec 2023
2023   
Goddesses: A Love Explosion, Terrace Gallery, London & now online
2023   
This Year's Model, Studio 1.1, London

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