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Paula MacArthur was born in Enfield, England in 1967.[1] 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]

Paula MacArthur
Born	Enfield, England
Occupation	Artist
Website	Paula MacArthur

MacArthur has lectured on her work at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Norwich University of the Arts,[6] Jerwood Gallery, Hastings and Glasgow Artist Guild. She ran the De La Warr Pavilion ‘Artist Critique Group’ until 2019.[7]

Selected exhibitions

• “Slippery & Amorphous” The Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church (2016)[8][9]
• “This Year's Model” Studio 1.1, London (2016)
• “Undead Painters” ASC Gallery, London (2015)
• “Creekside Open” Art in Perpetuity Trust (APT Gallery), London (2015)
• “Disturbance” Atom Gallery, London (2015)[10]
• “OVERHE(a)R(e)” Carnegie Library, London (2015)
• “Infinitely Precious Things” VJB Arts, London (2014)[11]
• “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

• National Portrait Gallery, London[12]
• The Priseman Seabrook Collection[13]

Awards

• Prize winner, , Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (1993)
• Royal Academy Schools Prize for painting (1993)
• First Prize Winner, John Player Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London (1989)

References

External links

• Paula MacArthur
• Artslant

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