Paul Butler is an artist whose practice is founded on drawing but whose long career has crossed many boundaries: from sculpture to drawing; from painting to public art; from academia to curating and writing.
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It was difficult work: painting in acrylics, in an extremely hot interior and with the sodium lights, which meant they could not see the colours correctly. Leave a comment.
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Each artist did his own research. After this Paul lectured and taught, had an Arts Council residency at Maltby Colliery in South Yorkshire, and many large public exhibitions. So the paintings are about these contradictions – between cold rock and warm bodies – between the ephemeral and the sublime.
Many people still see art as being done by posh people for posh people. Paul recalls, “I got this wall in Shepherds Bush which was a hundred and forty feet long and fifteen feet high on the side of a telephone exchange on the Uxbridge Road and made of concrete panels.
Paul says of the work on show, “My overwhelming feeling about Tenby is that it is an elemental place, dominated by great rocks and huge beaches; the ‘Little Fortress of the Fish’ on the edge of the Atlantic ocean, it’s cliffs and harbour shielding the kids as they play with their inflatable sharks and plastic toys. He describes his family as ‘posh but poor’. 1991. Art; Design; Learning; Search for: Design.
The Greater London Council (GLC) declared 1983 to be ‘ Peace Year ‘ and among its awards gave £40,000 to the ‘London Muralists for Peace Collective’, a group headed up by Brian Barnes that included Paul, Ray Walker, Greenwich Mural Workshop – Carol Kenna and Stephen Lobb, the Brixton Muralists Dale McCrea and Pauline Harding who would each paint peace murals during the year.
People say the harder you work the luckier you get – I’ve certainly worked hard – but I was lucky to get involved with the Cable Street mural, its been an absolutely wonderful connection and I am still connected to the East End and Jewish East End culture because of Cable Street, that’s an achievement I guess.”, Paul Butler – ‘The Battle of Cable Street’, 1982, ‘Peace Mural’, Shepherds Bush. In 1996 his car was doused in paint, its tires slashed and he received death threats by militant fascists.
Since then it has been attacked three times by racists, and Paul has repainted it each time, in a very vulnerable position working of scaffold towers thirty feet high. At the other end are references to Buddist children dancing and Stonehenge.
The wall was grit-blasted to remove the damage, then reprimed and squared up again. It ran all the way along the wall in an extended figure of eight over a long shallow curve beneath, representing the earth’s landmasses, and a big satellite – referring to telecommunications.
Paul was born in Bristol in 1947.
City of London Corporation ... Art UK is the operating name of the Public Catalogue Foundation, a charity registered in England and Wales (1096185) and Scotland (SC048601). He learned from books of Van Gogh and Vermeer that he won in art competitions, and he copied the drawings of Leonardo, “a conceptual drawer with such feeling for humanity”. He had only just begun when he got a call to say the mural had been extensively and brutally vandalised.
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He says many in the art business – gallerists and curators – are contemptuous of mural painting; that there is an internal dialogue within contemporary art practice where the cognoscenti are only talking to one another.
[Skip to content] Back home he worked on props and sets for the Royal Shakespeare Company for two years.
He felt sick of the art business that only spoke to the ‘cognoscenti’ and he wanted his art to talk to people, to touch them emotionally. Paul Butler was born in Chicago, Illinois on June 23, 1892.