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Paul Edwards is a painter working out of his studio in Cardiff. His painting is figurative and underpinned by drawing - he is interested in making work about seeing. The subjects drawn or painted, and most recently filmed, are often ordinary - objects or people occupying and animating spaces. Objects are painted for their narrative possibilities, because objects are not neutral. Edwards is interested in our relationship to objects and how they accumulate emotional associations.
As well as working in the U.K., he regularly works abroad: at the Ballinglen Foundation on the West coast of Ireland, in the U.S. in Vermont and at the Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts and most recently in Schwandorf, Germany.
He has been chair of the Welsh Group and has worked as an educator in Art Colleges and Universities here and abroad.
Edwards has work in many private collections in Britain, Germany and the U.S. His work is also represented in public collections: in the Kunsthalle Mannheim, University of Lincoln and Bishop Grosseteste University and at the Glyn Vivian Gallery in Swansea.
Born and lives: Cardiff, Wales.
Education:
The Slade Schools, University College London
Solo exhibitions:
Curated projects and events:
Group exhibitions:
Other exhibitions include: Eastern Arts Open, Cheltenham Fine Arts Fellows Show, Drawing for All, East Midlands Arts, Serien, Sequenzen, Zyklen, Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany, Royal National Eisteddfod, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Awards and residencies:
Collections:
Regierungsprasidium, State of Baden Württemberg Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany Glyn Vivian Museum and Gallery, Swansea University of Lincoln Bishop Grosseteste College, Lincoln Ballinglen Arts Foundation Archive, Ireland Kings Palace, Rabat, Morocco Private Collections in Germany, Great Britain, Ireland and U.S.A.
Publications:
See some of the artist's work in public collections on the Art UK website.
Paul Edwards is a painter working out of his studio in Cardiff. His painting is figurative and underpinned by drawing - he is interested in making work about seeing. The subjects drawn or painted, and most recently filmed, are often ordinary - objects or people occupying and animating spaces. Objects are painted for their narrative possibilities, because objects are not neutral. Edwards is interested in our relationship to objects and how they accumulate emotional associations.
As well as working in the U.K., he regularly works abroad: at the Ballinglen Foundation on the West coast of Ireland, in the U.S. in Vermont and at the Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts and most recently in Schwandorf, Germany.
He has been chair of the Welsh Group and has worked as an educator in Art Colleges and Universities here and abroad.
Edwards has work in many private collections in Britain, Germany and the U.S. His work is also represented in public collections: in the Kunsthalle Mannheim, University of Lincoln and Bishop Grosseteste University and at the Glyn Vivian Gallery in Swansea.
Born and lives: Cardiff, Wales.
Education:
The Slade Schools, University College London
Solo exhibitions:
- 2024: ‘Taith Contemporary Art’ Vienna. Recent Paintings
- 2017: ‘Seren Press’ Hay Festival. Drawings for ‘Brood’ a collection of poems by 2015 Welsh writer of the year Rhian Edwards.
- 2004: Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. “Recent Drawings”
- 2004: University of Lincoln, Lincoln, England. American Paintings.
- 2003: Exhibit E, Aaron Gallery, Washington, D.C. European Art at Dupont Circle,” a series of exhibitions at eleven galleries sponsored by the European Union and the British Council.
- 1987: Altehauptfeuerfache Culture Centre, Mannheim, Germany / Mission Gallery, Swansea.
Curated projects and events:
- 2017: Cornerstone Poetry Festival, Artist talk Imagistic: An on-going series of collaborations between artists and writers.
- Imagistic events have taken place at: http://cardiffflashfictionday.blogspot.com/
- 2018: Cornerstone’s Seren Poetry Festival, Cornerstone Arts Centre
- 2016: Hillyer Art Space, Washington D.C.
- 2016: Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.
- 2015: A.W.P. Conference Minneapolis 2015
- 2014: Spacialising Illustration Conference, University of Wales, Trinity St Davids, Swansea
- 2013: Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. 2012: Millennium Centre, Cardiff.
- 2011: ‘Translations,’ Greestone Gallery, University of Lincoln. Co-curated with Janis Bowley; exhibited ‘And a Wrinkle,’ a collaborative project with Janet Passehl.
Group exhibitions:
- 2024 - ‘About Time’ Queen Street Gallery, Neath
- 2023 - ‘Celf Gwyrdd’ Mid Wales Art Centre
- 2022 - ‘Across Two Valleys’ Red House’ Merthyr, South Wales
- 2019 – Taith Contemporary Art, ‘Design Orange Moon’ Vienna
- 2018 – ‘The Welsh Group at 70’ Cynon Valley Museum, Mid Wales Arts Centre, National Assembly for Wales. Oriel y bont, MOMA Machynlleth
- 2017: ‘Diverse Perspectives’, Tenby Museum and Art Gallery, Wales.
- 2012: ‘Rhinoceros,’ Online Drawing Collaboration.
- 2010: ‘Pebbles and Avalanches,’ The Crossley Gallery, Dean Clough, Halifax.
- 2010: ‘All Over the Place,’ The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds. University of the West of England, Bristol - collaborative venturebetween LAND2 and the Drawing Group, Centre for Art Media
- 2005 / 2000: Ballinglen Arts Foundation. Work from the Ballinglen archive.
- 2002 / 2003: Aaron Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Other exhibitions include: Eastern Arts Open, Cheltenham Fine Arts Fellows Show, Drawing for All, East Midlands Arts, Serien, Sequenzen, Zyklen, Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany, Royal National Eisteddfod, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Awards and residencies:
- 2024 Kebbel-Villa International Künstlerhaus. Artist in Residence - begins June 2024.
- 2022 / 2019 / 2018 / 2007 / 2005 / 2002: The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Artist in Residence.
- 2004: Arts Council England Grant for the Arts Award. Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland.
- 2004 / 1999: Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland. Artist in Residence.
- 2003 British Council Award. Exhibit E
- 2000: Vermont Studio Center, U.S.A., Artist in Residence.
- 2000: Arts Council England, New Work and Commissions Grant.
- 1987: Altehauptfeuerfache Culture Centre, Mannheim, Germany. Artist in Residence, June – December.
- 1984: Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award to study painting and drawing in Madrid, Toledo.
- 1981: Painting Fellowship at Gloucestershire College of Technology and Art. One-year post as artist in residence
Collections:
Regierungsprasidium, State of Baden Württemberg Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany Glyn Vivian Museum and Gallery, Swansea University of Lincoln Bishop Grosseteste College, Lincoln Ballinglen Arts Foundation Archive, Ireland Kings Palace, Rabat, Morocco Private Collections in Germany, Great Britain, Ireland and U.S.A.
Publications:
- 2024: Nation Cymru: ’On being an Artist in Wales’
- 2018: New Welsh Review: ‘Nude in a Roomscape’ Collaboration with Amy Wack
- 2017: Brood, Rhian Edwards, Seren Books.
- 2014: Varoom! Magazine: Spacializing Illustration – ‘Imagistic’
- 2013: New Welsh Review: ‘Imagistic’ Collaboration with Rhian Edwards
- 2003: AN Magazine: Residencies abroad
See some of the artist's work in public collections on the Art UK website.
