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COVID-19 ALUMNI SHOW CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ARTS LONDON JULY 2022

IM PLEASED TO SAY MY WORK WILL BE SHOWN AS A PART OF THE ALUMNI SHOW REALLY A POST COVID-19 THANKYOU BY THE UAL TO ALL THE STUDENTS AFFECTED BY THE PANDEMIC ACROSS SEVERAL SCHOOLS INCLUDING, WIMBLEDON, CHELSEA AND CAMBERWELL . THIS IS A HISTORIC MOMENT IN TIME FOR ALL OF THE FINE ART STUDENTS INVOLVED CURATED BY MARK LUNGLEY &
Zsuzsa Benke.

SOLO SHOW @ TURF PROJECTS, CROYDON, LONDON

ARTIST PAUL CHISHOLM TURF PROJECTS

THE TRONIE’S OF CROYDON-OH

TURF PROJECTS

6TH-9TH OF JULY 2022

PV AND ARTIST TALK 1PM -5PM SATURDAY 9TH

THE WHITGIFT CENTRE, 46-47, TRINITY COURT, CR0 1UQ, CROYDON, LONDON.

A NEW BODY OF WORK BY THE ARTIST MR PAUL DAVID CHISHOLM

 

A series of new paintings and sculptures by the Artist Paul Chisholm celebrating or commiserating a supposed post Covid and Brexit Britain. Created during lockdown in the past two years.

When someone asks you where are you from? And you say Croydon they respond with “oh”. The paintings are a continuation of the artists series “ The Lost Children of paradise” Taking the concept of the circus onto or into the streets and our houses where we were confined to during the pandemic.

 Mainly inspired by the new insights of peoples homes and their heads whilst live streaming from the confines of their homes. This pandemic gave us a new zeitgeist in terms of the way we hear, see and interact with each other especially via the news, peoples book shelves, the  mess and the interiors of their homes are broadcast live on TV, as well as social groups and special interest groups via zoom or skype. Suddenly our heads have become public figures and the ways in which we portray ourselves and our ideas are subject to our background image choices when using a video camera and our headshots.  i.e a Tronie. A Dutch term for a face portrait. Funnily enough the artists boyfriend is Dutch and they spend half the year in Amsterdam.

 “ A tronie is a type of work common in Dutch Golden Age painting and Flemish Baroque painting that depicts an exaggerated or characteristic facial expression. These works were not intended as portraits but as studies of expression, type, physiognomy or an interesting character such as an old man or woman, a young woman, the soldier, the shepherdess, the Oriental, or a person of a particular race, etc.[1][2]

The main goal of the artists who created Tronie’s was to achieve a lifelike representation of the figures and to show off their illusionistic abilities through the free use of colour, strong light contrasts, or a peculiar colour scheme. Tronie’s conveyed different meanings and values to their viewers. Tronie’s embodied abstract notions such as transience, youth, and old age, but could also function as positive or negative examples of human qualities, such as wisdom, strength, piety, folly, or impulsiveness.[2] These works were very popular in Holland and Flanders and were produced as independent works for the free market.”

The artist would like to thank Sane in London and Visual Aids in New York for their kind generosity in supporting the production of this work alongside Turf Projects, Croydon  for their commitment in showing the new body of work.

Paul Chisholm (1983) born in Canterbury, England and brought up in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. He studied at Nottingham Trent University (2004) before doing his MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art in London (2018/2019). Chisholm’s practice has been featured on The BBC, The Daily Star, Metro Newspaper, Attitude magazine and more. He came to notoriety in 2017 when he sold “ The Worlds most painful dildo” as dubbed by the press at Christies, London in Aid of the Terrence Higgins Trust. Recent exhibitions include Too much World at the Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea London curated by Anni Lii from the Sotheby’s Institute , Cookies & Coke at The Old Biscuit factory, Bermondsey London ( Batch Artists) , Paint, White Conduit Projects, London & The Everyday exhibition, Curated by Visual Aids, La mama Galleria, New York. 

 

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FOR MORE INFO: WWW.MRPAULDAVIDCHISHOLM.COM & FOR PRESS & SALES INQUIRES: MRPAULDAVIDCHISHOLM@GMAIL OR INFO@TURFPROJECTS                                                               

 TEL: 01883740435 FOR THE ARTIST  OR THE GALLERY @ 02032510108

FANFARE - OOMPAH OOMPAH

LA MAISON BLEUE  PENTECOSTE @ VIC FEZENSAC, FRANCE 2018 

WEEKEND OF 18TH TO 21ST MAY. 

 

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" FANFARE " it will be an absolute pleasure to document and dissect a very French festival in rural France one which I have been a lucky outsider to witness for over 15 years.... Pentecoste is the festival of the birth of the Church 49 days after Easter and commemorates the descent of the holy spirit in this small part of rural #France this #festival is celebrated by drinking shit loads of french wine, a combustion of #fanfare bands, the eating of foie gras and unfortunately the killing of #bulls in the arena( I am a Tauren btw ) . #Political, #religious and #ethical and brexit issues will be set aside in this exhibition instead the #celebration of #life #music and #dancing will be the main points of the show, cultural differences and the current #european issues will be set aside in a show of love is for all and #music is my first love.

(Side note note to this, I don't think I'm capable of making work which in some way is not provocative or does not raise issues however it will all be fun fun !!!) 

HOMOPROMO

Exhibition and Charity Auction of glorious gay art protesting LGBTQ+ injustice across the world. 5.12.17, 6-9pm at Herman Miller London. Proceeds will go to Stonewall
In 74 countries it’s illegal to be gay.
In 13 countries homosexuality is punishable by death.
Almost 50% of trans pupils have attempted suicide.
Over 100 men suspected of being gay have recently disappeared in Chechnya. 
President Ramzan Kadyrov denies this on the basis there are ‘no gay men in Chechnya.’
 

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QUEER ARTISTS NOW, ARCHIVE GALLERY, LONDON, OCTOBER, 2017.

The exhibition Queer Art(ists) Now will provide a snap-shot of what artists within our communities are making right now; an insight into the thoughts, preoccupations, aesthetics, and politics of queer artists. We are interested in the work YOU are making, the content and style is influenced by what you submit. So whilst you are Queer/LGBTQIA+ the work does not necessarily have to represent this, but equally can, and will. The exhibition will present a kaleidoscope of your artistry, as a window on what the fuck is going on.

Up to 50 artists will be selected by our panel to be included in a salon-style exhibition taking place at Archive Gallery in Haggerston, London, between Thursday 12th – Sunday 15th October. 

Up to 50 artists will be selected by our panel to be included in a salon-style exhibition taking place at Archive Gallery in Haggerston, London, between Thursday 12th – Sunday 15th October.