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Paul Levy

Paul Levy
Pop Art, Punk Values, Improvised Methods

I am a visual artist who works at Outpost Studios and ArtDepot in Norwich primarily using ink, acrylic paint, and digital media.  The idea of coexisting realities is an ever-present theme in my pictures and objects.  My work incorporates overlapping times and spaces; sequences and relationships of colour, light and form; memory and vision.  Text is often present, sometimes in the form of an additional texture, sometimes making sense. My intention is to create real and complex layers of meaning about how we make sense of the world.  I work in sets of long-running themes. For example, Sacred Mountains, the Female Gaze and On Jones Beach are open-ended sets of works that explore the ideas of formal repetition, patriarchy and poetic reality and the mythological aspects of pop art.

In the last few years I have incorporated sculpture into my practice, inspired by the reusable nature of cardboard packaging and its poetic and expressive possibilities. The series called On Jones Beach comes from creating the world of a poem, or part of a poem, in three-dimensional form.

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