August Exhibition of paintings, drawings and constructions by Paul Eames
Dunblane Museum
Added on 31 March 2025
Exhibition in Dunblane Museum, for from Monday 4 August until Friday 29 August 2025, of paintings, drawings and constructions by Paul Eames
Paul Eames’ paintings, drawings, collages and constructions are based on the seemingly innocuous objects or ‘things’ and spaces that we make. He is interested in the stories they tell or can tell, about our actions, relations and interactions – intended or otherwise. Often his interest is focussed on those things that are perhaps least functional, the less profound of our creations.
Working directly from the motif – currently still-life set ups, collaged images, drawings, photographs and found images and objects, often over extended periods of time, he looks for the drama or potential drama in the ordinary; to find the global story of us in the everyday. It is the juxtaposition of the objects or images that he adopts, rather than their ‘symbolism’, that sets up the narrative in his work.
Paul Eames studied BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting at Camberwell School of Art, London, graduating in 1987. Since then, he combined his work as an artist with a career in arts development. In 2024, he began working full-time on his art practice.
Periodically, between 1993 and 2014, he worked with five other artists based in the Forth Valley area of Scotland, under the name of Hanging Together, to create one-off installations and interventions primarily, though not exclusively, in non-art spaces.