Biography on art fryer

Paul Fryer is a renowned artist who lives and works in London, United Kingdom.
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at the Kennedy Memorial, 2006

Paul Fryer lives and works in London, England.

Solo Exhibitions

2012       Square Circle Star Cross Waves, Guido Costa projects, Turin
2012       The Undivided Light, Hospital Gallery/AFM, London
2012       Lo Spirito Vola, Gucci Museum, Florence
2012       The Electric Sky, Pertwee, Anderson & Gold, London
2012       First Light, KSG, Dallas
2010       Pieta, The Cathedral Of Gap, Pyrenees
2008       Let There Be More Light, AVA/Simon Dickinson, London
2007       In Loving Memory, Guido Costa Projects, Turin
2007       The Tempest (with Mat Collishaw), Biennale Venice
2007       Potential & Ground, Manchester Square Fire Station, London
2007       Sleight of Hand (with Abigail Lane), Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria.
2006       Radiations, Julius Werner, Berlin
2006       Petit Mal Masonic Temple, Kristy Stubbs Gallery, London
2005       Carpe Noctum, Trolley Gallery, London
1999       Sleight of Hand (with Abigail Lane), Transposition, London

Group Exhibitions

2013 GlassStress: Whit

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An Interview with Paul Fryer

Aimee Resnick (she/her) - March 8, 2023

Paul Fryer is a renowned artist who lives and works in London, United Kingdom. Fryer has displayed more than 15 solo exhibitions and taken part in over 28 group shows. Perhaps best known for his edgier, darker, and more macabre pieces, Fryer’s work also encompasses highly technical technology based sculptures. His compulsions focus on religion, mimesis, light, and the ephemeral and mysterious. Fryer is a truly multidisciplinary artist whose artistic canon spans decades. This week, we sat down to discuss Catholicism, our own daily apocalypse, and the meaning of life.

NAR: Your work centers around religion in a rather macabre nature: are you a believer? How do you reconcile your practice with the idealized artistic forms of the traditional church canon?

Fryer: There’s a lot in that question. You know, "the church" isn’t really one thing anymore. There used to be the Patrician “Constantinian Roman Catholic Church,” but that was split by The Reformation . It's much more fragm

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Paul Fryer's art is steeped in references to Christianity, literature, science and history. His works, which are bold in the techniques he uses as well as the political commitments he espouses, are both tragic and poetic.

In the 1980s, Fryer studied in Leeds with Damien Hirst but did not complete his training. In 2005, he resumed his artistic production with a series of Christ figures made of wax, including the 2007 Pietà (The Empire Never Ended), which is in the Pinault Collection. The artist, who says "we are living in the heart of a continuous apocalypse", also has an interest in complex techniques, including his lightning machines and star-makers, which evince his fascination with physics, cosmology, the universe and time.

Fryer's works in the Pinault collection were on display during the “Qui a peur des artistes ?” ("Who’s Afraid of Artists?”) exhibition at the Palais des Arts in Dinard in 2009 and the “So British!” show at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen in 2019.