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Paul Duncan: Paintings & Drawings

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Introduction	Paul Duncan was born in London in 1966. He studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art receiving his MA Fine Art in 1993. He has since shown in galleries across Europe and America and his work is held in private collections in London, Berlin, Geneva, New York & LA. After a spell teaching in Zambia in the late 90s, the National Gallery in Lusaka purchased some of his paintings for their permanent collection. The artist is obliquely familiar with the landscapes he paints, but upon them he transposes a strange reality in which even stranger things are happening. Often containing a solitary mad prophet, animalized form or suffering saint-like figure, trapped in a thicket or boiling in a cauldron - these canvases are freighted with portents, like the opium dreams of a Stylite playing out in the Vale of Avalon, a South London Street or the blood-red deserts of Zambia. In tune with the times we live in Duncans work reflects how we exist today, not in a permanent present but in the future - the future we have inflicted upon ourselves spiritually, environmentally & economically; no longer able to trace the present and thence powerless to control our destiny any more.

Introduction

Paul Duncan was born in London in 1966. He studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art receiving his MA Fine Art in 1993. He has since shown in galleries across Europe and America and his work is held in private collections in London, Berlin, Geneva, New York & LA. After a spell teaching in Zambia in the late 90s, the National Gallery in Lusaka purchased some of his paintings for their permanent collection. The artist is obliquely familiar with the landscapes he paints, but upon them he transposes a strange reality in which even stranger things are happening. Often containing a solitary mad prophet, animalized form or suffering saint-like figure, trapped in a thicket or boiling in a cauldron - these canvases are freighted with portents, like the opium dreams of a Stylite playing out in the Vale of Avalon, a South London Street or the blood-red deserts of Zambia. In tune with the times we live in Duncans work reflects how we exist today, not in a permanent present but in the future - the future we have inflicted upon ourselves spiritually, environmentally & economically; no longer able to trace the present and thence powerless to control our destiny any more.