Paul Luckcraft

Eight Days a Week

Novas Warehouse

The series of paintings featured in the exhibition originate from photographs of TV 'white noise'. The flickering points of light on a screen are translated into thick blobs, smears and drips of paint sealed behind layers of varnish. This physical, tactile quality creates a distance from the flat photographic source allowing for an investigation of the painting process. Whilst employing a kind of surface seduction the work questions notions of the spiritual or expressive traditionally associated with abstraction. A response to an environment of media saturation and image overload, I am interested in making paintings that are simultaneously full yet empty.

Born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1978. Studied Fine Art at John Moore’s University, Liverpool, graduating in 2001 with First Class BA (Hons) and selected for 'Northern Graduates', The New Academy Gallery, London. A member of Arena Studios, Paul has recently been involved in the creation of a gallery space within the building and the organisation of a series of
projects in the venue. As well as these activities, Paul works at the new FACT Centre in Liverpool, and has continued to exhibit his paintings in shows across the UK.