Name: The weight of absence
Brand: Paula MacArthur
SKU: AR-00112467
Price: 10465.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.9 (1038 reviews)

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Type: Original Art
Medium: Paintings > Oil
Style: Surrealist
Subject: Nature
Year: 2025
Size: 160.0 x 120.0 x 2.0 cm
Ready to hang: No
Frame: No
Signed: Yes, Signed, dated and titled on reverse
Materials: Oil on linen

160.0 x 120.0 x 2.0 cm

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The weight of absence

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Paula MacArthur

Paintings160.0 x 120.0 cm?

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Paula MacArthur

Paula MacArthur is a multi award-winning painter, trained at the Royal Academy Schools. In 2024 she won Matthew Burrows' Judges Choice Award at the Jackson's Art Prize, in 1993 she was a John Moores Painting Prize winner and in 1989 she won the National Gallery Portrait Award.

Career highlights include
'Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now' at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, touring to the Attenborough Art Centre, Leicester with artworks by Hurvin Anderson, Lubaina Himid, Matthew Krishanu, Paula MacArthur, & George Shaw.

'Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting' 2022-23 touring from Huddersfield Art Gallery to 20-21 Arts Centre Scunthorpe featured works by Hannah Brown, Graham Crowley, Michele Fletcher, Paula MacArthur, Joe Packer, Julian Perry, Judith Tucker & Joanna Whittle.

Other highlights include the essay 'Still Light' by Graham Crowley, ‘Paint Fiction’ International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Alaska, USA (2023), 'PaintLounge Berlin' (2018), 'Made in Britain' at the National Museum Gdansk, Poland (2019), Contemporary Masters from Britain touring four museums in China (2017), Slippery & Amorphous London & Brooklyn (2016) & Young Contemporaries Whitworth Art Gallery (1989).

Paula is a member of the artist-led group Contemporary British Painting and served as Chair 2019-23 and is the Coordinator of the group's Contemporary British Painting Prize.

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