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Artist Statement:
I seek to produce images in
which elegance and economy of
formal structure give rise to
powerful emotional resonance.
My artistic influences are
varied, ranging from Japanese
and Chinese art to Vermeer and
Bruegel, to Cezanne and
Cubism, to Klee and Matisse,
to Abstract Expressionism, to
the painters of the St. Ives
School, etc.
A key aspect of much of my
more recent work has been the
endeavor to achieve a degree
of perceptual ambiguity which
will allow an image to
maintain a balance between the
recognizable and the
illegible, simultaneously
suggesting possible
interpretations whilst
discouraging any definitive
reading which would 'close
down', or de-mystify and
thereby de-energize, the
image. Steering in this way
between the conventional and
the mysterious I hope to
promote a more refined and
vital condition of seeing, and
it is this purified act of
seeing, with all that it
implies, which is the real
subject of my work.
My art is informed by my
longstanding interest in
philosophical and
psychological theories of
perception and cognition, and
particularly by my inquiry
into Buddhist ideas relating
to the nature of the self and
it's relation to the world.
One of my main preoccupations
is ...
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Exhibitions for Paul Mckenna:
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Selected Exhibitions
2007 Number 9 The Gallery, Birmingham
2005-07 The State of the Art Gallery, Portobello Road, London
2004-05 'Lights & Veils', The Bullyard Gallery, Nottingham
2000 The Works Gallery, Birmingham
1999 The Custard Factory, Birmingham
1995 Gallery 6, Ironbridge
1994/95 Ikon Gallery's touring exhibition, 'Fragments'
(various) Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
Private Collections
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
Collection of Terence Trent d'Arby
Various other private collections
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