About

“British sculptor, Paul Hazelton taps into the powerful emotional associations of dust to create sculptures that are at once perplexing, astonishing, and witty.”

– David Revere McFadden, Chief Curator Museum of Arts and Design, New York

Born in Margate in 1962, Paul grew up in a pristine, somewhat claustrophobic home environment, where he was only permitted to use pencil in the sterile setting of a covered table. His fascination with dust also originated from this deprivation from these, often unappreciated, forms of matter. Paul’s continuing return to drawing is a return to his origin; a need to touch base or to be in contact with a surface, just like how dust needs to. In many of Paul’s drawings, images are gently teased from densely drawn or woven geometric matrices. These structures, which Paul also sometimes creates three-dimensionally from human hair, he uses to reveal or capture hidden patterns or proportions. In essence Paul is searching, through his work, for the ultimate quintessence, the thing that holds everything together. The relation between beings and geometry has become a metaphysical quest for Hazelton, trying to understand the human pursuit for perfection when in the face of decay.

CURRENT | UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

  • Paper Trail Maidstone Museum | 28 March – 27 September 2020

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2020

  • No Stone Left Unturned Margate Caves | 28 September 2019 – 1 March 2020

2019

  • Miniscule Venice Fondamenta Sant’ Anna 996, Castello 30122, Venezia | 10 May – 21 July 2019 (curated by Vanya Balogh)
  • Miniscule Part 2 Cross Lane Projects, Cross Lane, Kendal Cumbria 23 March – 18 May 2019 (curated by Vanya Balogh)

2018

  • Animals and Us Turner Contemporary, Margate
  • Cabinet Da-End 07 Galerie Da-End, Paris

2017

  • Lost Property 2071 Artist in residence London Bridge Station, Beyond Platform 7
  • Master of All Trades: Ruskin Drawing Prize Shortlisted Exhibition 2017 Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
  • Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition
    Guildhall Art Gallery, London
  • Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition The Four Domes Pavilion, a branch of the National Museum in Wrocław, Poland
  • Ghosts in the Making  Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Natural History and Fine Art, London (solo exhibition)

2016

  • Wolves, Magic and Spinning Wheels: The anatomy of fairy tales Maslow Galleries, Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art, Pennsylvania
  • Tempus Fugit- œuvres de Paul Hazelton Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Saint–Omer (solo exhibition)
  • Curio: Sites of Wonder Studio 3 Gallery, Jarman Building, University of Kent, Canterbury
  • Nature Morte Konsthallen at Bohuslan Museum, Sweden
  • Dignified and Curiosities work selected from Thomas Olbricht’s collection as part of Los Carpinteros “Helmet” Museum Folkwang, Essen Germany
  • Shuffle – Summer Exhibition Herrick Gallery, Piccadilly London
  • Wolves, Magic and Spinning Wheels: The Anatomy of Fairy Tales Maslow Galleries, Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art, Pennsylvania

2015

  • Monsters and Masks Studio Colbert, Columbia Road, London
  • INVITED 9 Hillgate Street, Notting Hill, London Fair & Co in collaboration with Seth Stein Architects curated by Flora Fairbairn of Fair & Co and Philly Adams of The Saatchi Gallery.
  • Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life
    Ha gamle prestegard, Stavanger, Norway curated by Michael Petry & Eva Watne. Assistant curators: Robert Ekholm & Ingunn Nord-Varhaug
  • Inaugural show with Reece Jones, Matthew Killick and Minnie Weisz Herrick Gallery, 93 Piccadilly, Mayfair London
  • DUST Museum of Everyday Life, Vermont
  • The Infected Museum: launch exhibition for the new Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Natural History and Fine Art
  • Waste Agency Platform 7, 1 Whittington Avenue, City, Leadenhall, London
  • Sex Shop Transition Gallery, Unit 25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8 4QN curated by Sarah Gillham, Jack Stockoe and Derren Nairn

2014

  • Godot Tree for The Godot Company’s new production of Waiting for Godot Cockpit Theatre, Gateforth Street, Marylebone, London NW8 8EH
  • Miniare Bo . Lee, The Crate, Notting Hill, London
  •  Hazelton & Swift De-In-Stall 1800 curated by Alice Herrick as part of: We Could Not Agree Cavendish Square underground car park curated by Vanya Baloch and Cedric Christie
  • Sex Shop The Folkestone Fringe 2014 – 5 Rendezvous Street, Folkestone, Kent curated by Sarah Gillham, Jack Stockoe and Derren Nairn
  • De-In-Stall Exhibition Herrick Gallery, 1 French Place, London
  • De-In-Stall: Part 2 Art Car Boot Fair Folkestone with Herrick Gallery
  • Factual Nonsense Red Gallery, London
  • De-In-Stall: a fete accompli – A Hazelton & Swift collaboration for A Fete Worse Than Death: Rivington Street, London
  • Artist in Residence Margate Shell Grotto
  • Art14 London with Gallery Nosco  Olympia Grand, Hammersmith Road, London W14 8UX
  • Chinese Open Q Park, China Town, London

2013

  • INTIMACY Gallery Nosco in collaboration with Frameless Gallery 20 Clerkenwell Green, London
  • DNA and Dust: Joint solo show with Heather Dewey-Hagborg) QF Gallery, East Hampton New York
  • WONDERFUL: Humboldt, Krokodil & Polke, Die Olbricht Collection ME Collectors Room, Berlin | Olbricht Foundation
    Until 25th August 2013
  • The Edible Print Project, AVM Curiosities in association with Herrick Gallery Art Car Boot Fair, The House Gallery, Camerwell Arts festival, Herrick Gallery
  • Building Bridges” / “La Construcción de Puentes” Fundación Rozenblum at BSM Art Building Boulogne Sur Mer 345 Argentina
  • Scope New York with Rare Gallery Skylight at Moynihan Station, New York

2012

  • Adventure Herrick Gallery, 1 French Place, Shorditch, London
  • Homage to Domestic Familiarity 2  Anya Trish Gallery, Houston Texas  
  • Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Being The Crypt, One Marylebone  Road, London.
  • Turn [solo] Herrick Gallery, London
  • Plate Herrick Gallery, London
  • Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design Museum of Arts and Design, New York
  • Scope, New York with Rare Gallery New York
  • Beasts Royal Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London.
  • Red List Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, Kent, England

2011

  • Glitterbug Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London.
  • Dear ladies of the Church Art in Romney Marsh, Romney, Kent, England
  • What is Food Moonbow Jakes & The Lido Margate Kent, England (Platform7)
  • Dirty Little Secret Indica on 11th, New York.

2010

  • House of Fairy Tales Salisbury Arts Centre, Wiltshire, Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall; Art of Giving: Saatchi Gallery, London
  • Exquisite Trove, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall. Curated by Alice Herrick.
  • Remnants, Fuse Gallery, New York
  • London Calling: Tribute to Ray Lowry See Gallery, Lancashire; Tokyo Hipsters Club, Tokyo, Japan; Idea Generation Gallery, London
  • Magnitude 7 Manifest, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Shoebox Auction and Exhibition: Kidsco & The Bryan Adams Foundation Haunch of Venison, London
  • Scope, New York with Rare Gallery New York

2009/10

  • Two-person show w/Herb Williams, RARE Gallery, New York
  • 8×12: Rare Artists Group Show, RARE Gallery, New York

2009

  • Scope, Miami with Rare Gallery New York
  • Platform, Raymond Gun Gallery, London
  • The Affluenza Exhibition, 187 – 211 St. John Street Clerkenwell London, UK
  • Travelling Light, Venice Biennale, Wilson Williams Gallery, London

2008

Cotton Woolly Mammoth, Margate Rocks, Thanet Contemporary Art festival, UK

2007

  • Decadence, Decay and the Demimonde, Home House, and 92 George Street, London.
  • Zoo Art Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London
  • Pathogeographies: Festival of political emotion, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
  • Expecting the Unexpected, Maidstone Library Gallery Maidstone Kent, UK

2006

  • Unnatural Selection, Shrewsbury Museum and Art gallery Shropshire
  • Defend/Défendre, Les Ramparts, Saint-Omer, France; Deal Castle, Deal, Kent. Curated by Christine Gist and Benoît Warzée

2004

  • Exploding Map: public art commission, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, Kent.

2002

  • Life x Work = 0, Margate Rocks, Thanet Contemporary Art festival Margate Kent, UK

2000

  • The Point Is?, Whitstable Contemporary Arts Festival, The Old Ambulance Station Whitstable, Kent
  • The Bug, Light installation commissioned by Box Clever Theatre Co, South Quay, Whitstable Harbour, Whitstable, Kent, UK
  • Future Show, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK

1999

  • Printmaking Council Open Exhibition, Atrium Gallery, Queensway, London, UK

PUBLICATIONS AND CATALOGUES

2017

  • Fare Luce (Shedding Light) (book looking at light in art, design and architecture with contributions from many artists, writers and curators) by Beppe Finessi, Corraini Edizions (feature including my dust/light bulb pieces)
  • Viridis Candela – Le Publicateur du Collège de ‘Pataphysique (a quarterly journal centred around the work of Alfred Jarry) 9th Series, Number 11, Musæum Clausum, Assembleur de Poussière
  • Hibernus E-Squared Magazine | Art and ScienceArtist Feature

2013

  • Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Re-invigorate The Still Life Tradition. Dr. Michael Petry, Thames & Hudson.

2012

  • Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Being All Visual Arts [Catalogue]
  • Moby Dick Big Read contribution toAngela Cockayne’s & Philip Hoare’s  online reinterpretation of Melville’s classic  novel http://www.mobydickbigread.com
    Moby Dick Big Read
  • Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design. David Revere McFadden, Museum of Arts and Design [published in conjunction with the exhibition]
  • Swept Away Artforum February 2012 SweptAway_ArtForum

2011

2010

2007

  • Decadence, Decay and the Demimonde Austin Enterprises [Catalogue]

2006

2004

Documentaries

2012

2011

2010

Press and Reviews

2018

2017

2014

2013

2012

  • Mite Makes Right ArtNews March 2012 ArtNews
  • Art Review: ‘Swept Away: Dust, Ashes and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design’ at MAD, John Zeaman, Special to The Record, North Jersey 
    Swept Away – Review
  • Dirty Work is made beautiful at the Museum of Arts and Design, Allison Williams Time Out, New York, January 2012
  • Art Review: For Some Artworks, Life Begins at the Dustbin ‘Swept Away,’ at Museum of Arts and Design, Ken Johnson The New York Times, April 2012
  • Red List Review by Lee Devonish for Artists Newsletter Red List (review)

2010

2009

2007

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