Paula MacArthur

Paula MacArthur (born 1967 in Enfield, London^[1]) is an English artist. MacArthur was joint first prize winner in 1989 of the ‘John Player Portrait Award’ at the National Portrait Gallery, London with Tai-Shan Schierenberg. In 1993 she graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts where she was awarded the ‘Royal Academy Schools Prize for Painting’, that same year she was a prize winner of ‘Liverpool John Moores 18’.^[2] Her work is held in numerous collections including The National Portrait Gallery, London^[3][4] the collection of Baron and Baroness von Oppenheim and The Priseman Seabrook Collection.^[5][6][7]

Paula MacArthur
Born	Enfield, England
Occupation	Artist
Website	http://www.paula-macarthur.com/

MacArthur has lectured on her work at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Norwich University of the Arts,^[8] Jerwood Gallery, Hastings and Glasgow Artist Guild. She ran the De La Warr Pavilion ‘Artist Critique Group’ until 2019.^[9]

MacArthur's recent work has focused on painting gem stones and crystals.^[10]

Selected exhibitions

• "Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting" Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, England (2022)^[11][12]
• “Slippery & Amorphous” The Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church (2016)^[13][14]
• “This Year's Model” Studio 1.1, London (2016)^[15]
• “Undead Painters” ASC Gallery, London (2015)
• “Creekside Open” Art in Perpetuity Trust (APT Gallery), London (2015)
• “Disturbance” Atom Gallery, London (2015)^[16]
• “OVERHE(a)R(e)” Carnegie Library, London (2015)
• “Infinitely Precious Things” VJB Arts, London (2014)^[17]
• “Q14” Art in Perpetuity Trust (APT Gallery), London (2014)
• “OVERHE(a)R(e)” Aplomb Gallery, Chicago, USA (2014)
• “Le Voci Ritrovate” Castello di Monti, Corigliano d’Otranto, Italy (2014)
• “Zeitgeist Summer Exhibition” Zeitgeist Arts Projects, London (2014)
• “The Femail Project” The Article Gallery, Birmingham City University (2013)
• “Tasty Modern” Schwartz Gallery, London (2013)
• “Minutiae” The Stone Space, London (2012)
• “What the Folk Say” Compton Verney, Warwickshire (2011)
• “Remasters” The Rag Factory, London (2010)
• “Four Self Portrait Artists” Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (1994)
• “Royal Academy of Arts Post-Graduates” Grassimuseum, Leipzig, Germany (1993)
• “Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition” Royal Academy of Arts, London (1991)
• “Young Contemporaries” Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (1989)

Selected collections

• National Portrait Gallery, London^[3][18]
• The Priseman Seabrook Collection^[19][6][7]

Awards

• Prize winner, , Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (1993)
• Royal Academy Schools Prize for painting (1993)
• First Prize Winner, John Player Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London (1989)