“Paul Housley is interested in the act of painting – he paints and paints until a canvas is thick with oil – but he is also interested in how that very solitary, private act, is mediated. How the role of the artist is represented in the world outside the studio, and how one medium finds kinship or representation in another. Housley’s paintings, all new, from 2026, depict cinemas, bookshops, the home of the painter Rembrandt. These are places where artists are made characters. In Housley’s hands, however, none of the locations are specific but places pieced together by Proustian memories. They are paintings that recall the ideal smell of a cinema, the easy warmth of a bookshop, the reverential silence of a gallery.”
— Oliver Basciano
