2023 — ongoing
The Quiet Archive
A long-form installation and book project pairing translucent textile panels with a serialised essay on the politics of preservation.
Read the project →№ 01 — Studio & Archive
Paul
Works & Writing
A multidisciplinary practice navigating the intersection of structuralist painting and contemporary media theory — chronicling the tension between the physical canvas and the noise of the digital frame.
№ 02 — Biography
Artist and writer based in London, working at the seam of painting and theory.
Trained in fine art at the Slade and in art history at the Courtauld, Paul holds a doctorate from Humboldt University on material phenomenology in late-modernist painting.
His studio practice spans painting, silver gelatin photography, illustration, and mixed-media installation — each grounded in a slow, document-led process.
№ 03 — Selected Works
From the Studio
№ 04 — Interdisciplinary Projects
Long-form work pairing writing with image.
2022 — 2024
Studio as Method
A two-year teaching and writing project that frames the studio itself — its furniture, its rituals, its noise — as a primary research instrument.
Read the project →№ 05 — Recent Publications
Academic
Writing
Selected essays and research papers exploring aesthetics in the age of algorithmic synthesis.
All publications →№ 06 — Studio Journal
From the Notebook
March 14, 2024 · 8 min read
On the Patience of Surfaces
A studio note on the discipline of waiting — for paint to dry, for plaster to set, for the hour of the day when a wall finally agrees to be photographed.
January 28, 2024 · 12 min read
Footnotes from a Residency
Notes assembled during a four-week residency at the Linnaean Society — on archives, drawing, and the small refusals available to the contemporary draftsperson.
April 02, 2024 · 5 min read
Reading List, Spring 2024
A short, annotated reading list of books and essays that have been keeping me company in the studio this season.