Meet Paul Eastwood
Paul Eastwood – Periclo Co director and Artist
Paul Eastwood is a Wales-based visual artist who treats art as a form of material storytelling. His work creates imagined histories and futures to investigate how spaces, artefacts, and memory communicate identities. Language – fleeting or imprinted, natural or invented, hegemonic or minority – is a constant object and medium of his practice. His work includes video, installation, ceramic, textiles, drawings and prints.
He was educated at Yale College, Wrexham (2003-4), Wimbledon School of Arts, London (2004-7), and the Royal Academy Schools, London (2011-14). Since his return to Wales he has won the inaugural NOVA Art Prize, Wales (2017), and has participated in numerous exhibitions across Wales, England, and Europe. These include a solo show at Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (2019), and, just last year, group shows at Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, and Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno. In 2020, he spent a three-month residency as Creative Wales Fellow at the British School in Rome. He is a Wales Venice 10 Award holder for 2022-23.
IKT delegates will meet Paul when visiting artist studios in Wrexham during IKT Congress 2023.
About PERICLO
PERICLO IS A PLATFORM FOR RISK AND EXPERIMENTATION IN CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS.
Periclo presents a programme of exhibitions, talks, screenings and performances. The space also provides research facilities through its reading room, with a particular focus on the relationship between artist and curator.
The exhibition programme and associated events provide artists an opportunity to test new ideas, to take risks and to experiment with content, themes and with display methods.
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