Paul Housley

Paul Housley (b.1964, Stalybridge, UK), graduated with a BA in Fine Art at Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1986, and a MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 1995. Deep in the formalities of oil paint, Paul’s work refracts his world and those phenomena that catch his eye. Reaped from the flow of our modernity, the social lives, histories, and restive objet de désir, pictured in Paul’s paintings recall those kaleidoscopic moments captured by the poetic M.G., Baudelaire’s modernist legend.

Select exhibitions include: The Poets Elbow, Belmacz (2020); Slow Painting, Hayward Gallery Touring, curated by Martin Herbert, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (2019); The Player Becomes the Game, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver (2019); If I Was Your Girlfriend: A Jam, Belmacz, London (2018); Dice. Apple. Knife duo exhibition with Joel Tomlin, Sothebys, Stockholm (2018); Snooker Room, new jörg, Vienna (2017); Between Things, University of Chichester, Chichester, God & Sausages (curated by Maria Georgoula), Stoa Zerbini, Athens (2017); Awkward, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York (2017); Factory to Palace, Sid Motion Gallery, London (2016); Mini Bar, Farbvision, Berlin (2016); Journeys to the Interior, Belmacz, London (2015); Concrete/ Oblique, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen (2014), Fourth Drawer Down at Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (2014).Studio Stories, Galleria Bianca, Palermo (2014); They Bloom at Night, Belmacz, London (2013).