Paula MacArthur

Paula MacArthur (born 1967 in Enfield, London[1]) is an English artist. MacArthur was joint first prize winner in 1989 of the ‘John Player Portrait Award’ at the National Portrait Gallery, London with Tai-Shan Schierenberg. In 1993 she graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts where she was awarded the ‘Royal Academy Schools Prize for Painting’, that same year she was a prize winner of ‘Liverpool John Moores 18’.[2] Her work is held in numerous collections including The National Portrait Gallery, London[3][4] the collection of Baron and Baroness von Oppenheim and The Priseman Seabrook Collection.[5][6][7]

Paula MacArthur
Born
Enfield, England
OccupationArtist
Websitehttp://www.paula-macarthur.com/

MacArthur has lectured on her work at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Norwich University of the Arts,[8] Jerwood Gallery, Hastings and Glasgow Artist Guild. She ran the De La Warr Pavilion ‘Artist Critique Group’ until 2019.[9]

MacArthur's recent work has focused on painting gem stones and crystals.[10]

Selected exhibitions
  • "Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting" Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, England (2022)[11][12]
  • “Slippery & Amorphous” The Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church (2016)[13][14]
  • “This Year's Model” Studio 1.1, London (2016)[15]
  • “Undead Painters” ASC Gallery, London (2015)
  • “Creekside Open” Art in Perpetuity Trust (APT Gallery), London (2015)
  • “Disturbance” Atom Gallery, London (2015)[16]
  • “OVERHE(a)R(e)” Carnegie Library, London (2015)
  • “Infinitely Precious Things” VJB Arts, London (2014)[17]
  • “Q14” Art in Perpetuity Trust (APT Gallery), London (2014)
  • “OVERHE(a)R(e)” Aplomb Gallery, Chicago, USA (2014)
  • “Le Voci Ritrovate” Castello di Monti, Corigliano d’Otranto, Italy (2014)
  • “Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition” Zeitgeist Arts Projects, London (2014)
  • “The Femail Project” The Article Gallery, Birmingham City University (2013)
  • “Tasty Modern” Schwartz Gallery, London (2013)
  • “Minutiae” The Stone Space, London (2012)
  • “What the Folk Say” Compton Verney, Warwickshire (2011)
  • “Remasters” The Rag Factory, London (2010)
  • “Four Self Portrait Artists” Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (1994)
  • “Royal Academy of Arts Post-Graduates” Grassimuseum, Leipzig, Germany (1993)
  • “Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition” Royal Academy of Arts, London (1991)
  • “Young Contemporaries” Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (1989)

Selected collections

Awards

References
  1. "Paula MacArthur". re-title.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  2. "John Moores 18". Walker Art Gallery. 1993. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  3. "'Frederick-Sanger' by Paula MacArthur (1991)". National Portrait Gallery. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  4. Dominiczak, Marek H. (1 July 2011). "International Year of Chemistry 2011: The Importance of Sequences". Clinical Chemistry. 57 (7): 1088–1089. doi:10.1373/clinchem.2011.167338. ISSN 0009-9147.
  5. "Paula MacArthur". Contemporary British Painting. Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  6. "Priseman Seabrook Collection: British Prints, Drawings and Photographs | More About - About the Venue". Art UK. Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  7. "About". Priseman Seabrook. Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  8. "news". NUCA. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  9. "artist-group". dlwp. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  10. "Paula MacArthur: Artist of the Month". Contemporary British Painting. 1 August 2022. Archived from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  11. "New Botanical Exhibition comes to Huddersfield Art Gallery". Kirklees Together. 14 November 2022. Archived from the original on 13 January 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  12. "Do you see art or graffiti? A new botanical exhibition has opened at Huddersfield Art Gallery". Huddersfield Hub. 20 November 2022. Archived from the original on 20 November 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  13. "Slippery and Amorphous". Art Rabbit. 2016. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  14. "Slippery and Amorphous". Marylebone Journal. 2015. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  15. Philo, Ruth (7 January 2016). "This Year's Model". Axis. Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  16. "Atom Gallery showcases all-female exhibition Disturbance 28 February – 8 March". John Jones. 9 February 2015. Archived from the original on 3 August 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  17. Carey-Kent, Paul (18 February 2014). "Paul's Art Stuff on a Train #42: 'Love in the City'". FAD Magazine. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  18. "Paula MacArthur". Art UK. Archived from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  19. "The Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting". Contemporary British Painting. Archived from the original on 24 April 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
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