The True Faith Project
Working with the Baltic Gallery in Newcastle in 2022 and basing the workshop on the costumes in the True Faith Video by New Order https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfI1S0PKJR8 choreographed by Phillippe Decoufle. Families were invited to create costumes using card board, tape, fabrics and found materials.
The Grimshaw Project
This project was a collaboration with myself, Leeds Art Gallery and Scarborough Art Gallery. I worked within their community engagement remits with schools and youth groups. We identified location sites portrayed by Victorian Leeds born painter Atkinson Grimshaw and photographed them today. Paul then manipulated the image on photoshop and projected the outline on to a wall and panels which were then completed by participants.
Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle community engagement project.
2017
A community engagement project for the Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle delivering a series of workshops, exhibitions and discussions with community groups visiting the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Hepworth and the Henry Moore Institute.
Partners included AXIS, Leeds Beckett University student volunteers and the Workers Education Association.
Film link about the project.
Portraits of Emotions
2013-2018
A series of paintings and drawings of people expressing emotions of joy, anger and sadness.
Paul delivered a series of portrait drawing workshops within Leeds primary and secondary schools, including volunteer Fine Art Student coordination.
Interviews with the portrait participants were conducted by Dr. Paula Boston.
There was a final exhibition and talk held at The Tetley in 2015. The work was also shown in University of Leeds School of Medicine, ESA Union 105 and Warren Street Pop up space and Munroe House Gallery.
The work is permanently on display in Leeds City Council buildings.
For info about the project.
Film link about the project.
Film link about the workshop delivered alongside the show.
Man
2010
This life size sculpture was made from styrofoam, plaster, paint and epoxy resin. Paul exhibited the finished piece in the Saatchi Gallery and Manchester Contemporary. The work is held in a private collection.
Collaboration with http://www.thackraymuseum.org