PAUL CHISHOLM

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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Missing rare polaroid photograph from exhibtion in

 URGENT !!!! 


URGENT PRESS RELEASE 

12/03/2019 

LGBTQ ART WORK MISSING !!! PLEASE HELP FIND ! 

A TEN THOUSAND POUND PHOTOGRAPH HAS GONE MISSING AT A LGBTQI EXHIBITION BY THE CONTEMPORARY ARTIST MR PAUL DAVID CHISHOLM. 

HELP MISSING ART WORK !

HELP MISSING ART WORK !

For information on its whereabouts please contact the Artist

Email: mrpauldavidchisholm@gmail.com

Web : www.mrapuldavidchisholm.com

Instagram: chisholm_studio 



The photograph in question “ In memoriam” is a homage to the Queer victims of the holocaust. 

It was on show at the Arts fems exhibition at Central St Martins School of Art in Kings cross, London as a part of LGBTQI Month in February. Due to the success of the show the dates were extended. Then due to a mishap in communication the the work has mysteriously vanished. 


The piece in question has a market value of £10,000 GBP. 


 The photograph in question “ In memoriam” is a homage to the Queer victims of the holocaust. 

It was on show at the Arts fems exhibition at Central St Martins School of Art in Kings cross, London as a part of LGBTQI Month in February. Due to the success of the show the dates were extended. Then due to the negligence of the curators the work has mysteriously vanished. 


The piece in question has a market value of £10,000 GBP. 


It depicts the Artist’s bare chest with a Pink upturned Triangle entitled “ In Memoriam” The work was originally made in 2015. 


The Artist has said he is saddened of it’s disappearance and hopes it can be returned home to his studio for the prosperity of the nation. 


The work was sold as prints at HOMOPROMO Hosted by Herman Miller, Holborn, London  in Aid of Stonewall in Autumn 2017. The prints raised lots of funds for this great charity. However now the original has gone missing. 


He has created a poster of the missing and valuable Art work which commemorates, documents, empowers and memorialises a very dark time in Queer and Global History. He has asked for it to be shared far and wide on social media. To help find this important work. The Art work was due to go on display for another exhibition. 


He is taking legal advice on the missing Art work. 


“A pink triangle has been a symbol for various LGBTQ identities, initially intended as a badge of shame, but later reclaimed as a positive symbol of self-identity. In Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, it began as one of the Nazi concentration camp badges, distinguishing those imprisoned because they had been identified by authorities as homosexual men,[1] a category that also included bisexual men and transgender women.[2] In the 1970s, it was revived as a symbol of protest against homophobia, and has since been adopted by the larger LGBT community as a popular symbol of LGBT pride and the LGBT rights movement.[3][4]

Wikipedia - Pink Triangle 

THIRST FURSDAY @ CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ART

The first Thursday of the month is a traditional time for gallery show openings. While considering this date for our exhibition, our internationally-diverse group of artists began to discuss the symbolic representations across cultures for the days of the week. In the Asian culture, Thursdays are represented by the symbol of a tree. In Western culture, the tree is a symbol for knowledge. We all agreed that as art students, we are in pursuit of knowledge. Then the discussion got less intense, and we agreed to call this show Thirst Fursdays!

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MFA @ CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ART LONDON

I'm pleased to announce that i have been accepted onto the Fine Art Masters at Chelsea College of Art starting in October 2018. This has been a long term goal for myself to finally afford the space, time and money and shear genius to be accepted on such a prestigious course.  I have spent the greater part of my  Artistic career living in London but after being rejected by the Royal College of Arts in around 2007, I almost gave up hope of ever being able to progress to such an institution. Now I will gracefully join the ranks of Artist's including David Hockney, Richard Deakon, Patrick Caulfield, Elazabeth Fink, Anthony Caro, Franko B, Anish Kapoor, Helen Chadwick, Rebbeca Warren, Gillian Wearing and of course Dirk Bogard ! Name dropping aside the chance to study and work with a new generation of Artists and my contemporaries next to Tate Britain and further develop and expand my practice to a wider audience will be a life changing and challenging year ! I can't wait ! 

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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 !!!) 

Chapter 1 Exhibition @ The old Biscuit Factory

The Chapter 1 Exhibition @ The Old Biscuit Factory curated by Artnumber 23 was a finely crafted exhibition Below is a link to the exhibition catalogue and an installation shot of "  The Earth has a way of preserving itself " 

 EXHBITION CATALOGUE: LINK       https://issuu.com/artnumber23/docs/artnumber23_cat._1.0

Image credit: Silvia Braida. 

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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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