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- PAUL ANDREW
McKENNA
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- 88 Dreghorn Road,
Bromford,
- Birmingham B36 8LN,
England
- T: (0121) 776 6696 or
077207 31284
- e mail: i_eusabius@yahoo.co.uk
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- Biography & Statement
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- EDUCATION
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- 1990-1993
- University of Central
England BA (Hons.Degree): Fine Art
(Painting)
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- 1988-1990
- Bournville College of Art
Foundation in Art and Design
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- SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
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- 2000 The Works Gallery,
Birmingham
- 1999 The Custard Factory,
Birmingham
- 1995 Gallery 6, Ironbridge
- 1994/95 Ikon Gallery's
touring exhibition, 'Fragments'
- (various) Royal Birmingham
Society of Artists
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- SELECTED COLLECTIONS
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- Queen Elizabeth Hospital,
Birmingham
- Collection of Terence
Trent d’Arby
- Private collections in
London and Los Angeles
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- STATEMENT
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- I am a Birmingham-based
artist specializing in painting, collage,
and digital imagery.
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- Producing images that flit
back and forth between the figurative and
the abstract, my central preoccupation is
a phenomenological one, exploring the
multi-level structures and processes
involved in the miraculous emergence of a
conceptual and spiritual apprehension of
the world from raw, committed perception:
the mystery of mind in the world.
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- As I work I seek a quality
of concentrated attention rooted in a
state of mental quiet. From here I watch
for intuitions from the interior. These
intuitions, inherently ambiguous, surface
in the language of dimly-lit memories and
fugitive insights, of poetry and dreams.
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- It is my task is to
crystalize them as an image.
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- In so far as I conceive of
my work as an attempt to translate
intimations of the transcendent into
pictorial terms, my art could be said to
have a religious, or spiritual basis.
Indeed, I feel that these images are best
approached in a spirit of contemplation.
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