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Born in Kent in the '60s, Paul Neads is a prize winning writer and artist who studied at Canterbury College of Art and Design and the University of Reading - from where he attained a BA (Hons) in 1991. A series of joint shows with John Allcock runs throughout 2007/8 - for more information on these exhibitions please click Here. These galleries feature work from an evolving series he refers to as Megalithic Musings. In deference to being born from an illustration project they outwardly retain a traditional form and portray some of the most dramatic ancient monuments in Britain; images “from that time period of which we have little factual knowledge yet are still drawn to through an instinctive ancestral attachment.” A motivating tenet behind the work is the exploration of communal evolution through concept to destruction and eventual desolation, and in tracking the landscape’s clues to society’s structure and mankind’s role within said landscape. All whilst tempered with the mysticism such sites evoke in the process. With one project goal being to tempt the individual to visit these locations, a recurring theme to Paul's work is the stagnation and
decay of society and this series of ancient landscapes provides a historical backbone to
a parallel series on urban regeneration. Over the years his artwork has appeared as book illustrations (most recently for How to Dump Your Girlfriend by Henry Pumpkin & Julian Daniel [Suitcase Press, 2008]), on record labels, calendars and cards, tattoos and t-shirt designs. He has worked as a muralist and spent several years as an art tutor, advancing the skills of adults with learning difficulties. Away from the art Paul is editor of The Ugly Tree poetry ‘zine, co-editor of Ballista magazine and oversees the Mucusart Press. His own writing has recently appeared on-line at Geeek & The Drabblecast, printed in Transmission, Dark Tales & Citizen32, whilst a co-authored collection of short stories with Dermot Glennon, engagingly entitled Occam's Blunt Instrument, was published in 2007.
For background information & selected texts on the sites depicted in these galleries please visit Bibliography
See www.myspace.com/brinkthinks for galleries of Paul Neads's other artwork |