Paul Boam is a highly articulate and distinguished artist, studying at Nottingham and Leeds Colleges of Art, arriving Australia 1964, he has amassed a career as a painter and lecturer, including Tasmanian School of Art for many years. His work is represented in many state and regional galleries, as well as various corporate collections such as Artbank , Reserve Bank, West LB Landesbank, Hong Kong.
His geometric abstract squares within squares with centralised leaf-shaped motifs from early works gradually incorporated more representation and sensitivity to the bush and local landscape, incorporating drawing, a shift in colour palette to greens, pinks and blues, and representation of the drama of light filtered within the landscape and through the trees.
Boam’s current exhibition titled “Journey”: from painting, through drawing into collage.
“This exhibition shows how the demands and frustrations of cancer have changed my work over a period of 5 years. How working at my easel gradually became impossible, the move towards more drawing, and how collage has enabled me to keep exploring ideas.”
Paul. March 2017
born UK 1938
studies & travel
- Snr Lecturer Faculty of Education, UTAS
1965-1989 Lecturer Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
1962-3 Leeds College of Art, UK
1957-1962 Nottingham College of Art, UK
solo exhibitions
2017 Journey Colville Gallery, Hobart
2012 Coles Bay Quarry Colville Gallery, Hobart
2010 New Works Colville Gallery, Hobart
2009 Salamanca Collection, Hobart
2007 Regeneration Salamanca Collection, Hobart
2005 Bathurst Revisited Salamanca Collection, Hobart
2003 Bush Dance with Jenny Turner, Salamanca Collection, Hobart
2001 Elements Salamanca Collection, Hobart
1999 Bathurst Harbor Salamanca Collection, Hobart
1996 Line & Colour with Jenny Turner Salamanca Collection, Hobart
1995 Paul Boam, Jenny Turner Katsui Studio, Perth
1992 Paul Boam Freeman Gallery, Hobart
1991 Paul Boam, Janice Hunter, Ben Richardson Freeman Gallery, Hobart
1990 Paul Boam Stuart Gerstmman Gallery, Melbourne
Paul Boam, Derick Smith Freeman Gallery, Hobart
1989 Paul Boam Gallery Cimitiere, Launceston
1988 Land, Sea & Sky with Jenny Turner Beaver Gallery, Canberra
Paul Boam Freeman Gallery, Hobart
1986 Paul Boam Freeman Gallery, Hobart
1980 Jenny & Paul Boam, Recent Paintings Drawings Bowerbank Gallery, Deloraine
1977 Jenny & Paul Boam Fine Arts Gallery, UTAS, Hobart
1975 Paul & Jenny Boam Bowerbank Gallery, Deloraine
1971 Man and His Art – Paul Boam Bowerbank Gallery, Deloraine
1970 Paul Boam Ball & Chain Gallery, Hobart
1968 Paul & Jenny Boam Don Camillo Restaurant, Hobart
1966 Paul & Jenny Boam Art Boutique, Hobart
1965 Paul & Jenny Boam Lloyd Jones Art Gallery, Hobart
1964 Paul & Jenny Boam Chesterfield Civic Theatre
selected group exhibitions
2004 Disorientate Plimsoll Gallery, UTAS
1996 Modernism in the Tasmanian Landscape TMAG
1992 Mandoria Art Prize Perth
1990 International Contemporary Art Fair Melbourne
1989 Six Painters Bonython Meadmore Gallery, Sydney
1987 Tasmania Ultima Freeman Gallery, Hobart
1985-86 Mandoria Art Prize Perth
1985 Six Contemporary Artists TMAG, Hobart
Eight from Tasmania Editions Gallery, Freemantle
1984 Burning Desires Salamanca Arts Festival, Hobart
1981 John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne
1980 Burnie Works on Paper Burnie Art Gallery, Burnie
1979 The Capital Permanent Purchase Award Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
Contemporary Tasmanian Drawings University of Tasmania, Hobart
1975-78 Tasmanian Art Gallery Exhibition TMAG, Hobart
1975-76 Blue Gum Festival of Tasmania TMAG, Hobart
1974 74 Enviroment – A Survey of Tasmanian Artists TMAG, Hobart
1973 Tasmanian Artists TMAG, Hobart
1972 Festival Exhibition of Painting William House, Adelaide
1971 Blue Gum Festival of Tasmania TMAG, Hobart
1970 Corio 5 Star Whisky Prize Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
Five Local & Interstate Painters Powell St Gallery, Melbourne
1969 Caltex Purchase Prize Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat
1968 Tasmanian Avante Garde Painting UTAS, Hobart
1967 Exhibition of Eleven Painters QVMAG, Launceston
1965-70 Launceston Art Purchase Exhibition QVMAG, Launceston
1964-65 Tasmanian Group of Painters TMAG, Hobart
1962 Young Contemporaries London, UK
1960-63 Midland Young Contemporaries Nottingham, UK
1960-63 Midland Group of Artists Nottingham, UK
collections
Artbank
Australian Securities Commission
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Burnie Art Gallery
Colt Collection, USA
Derby Technical College
Federal Law Court, Hobart
Hobart Technical College
Legal & General Insurance, Hobart
Myer Collection, Melbourne
Nottingham University, UK
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery
Reserve Bank, Hobart
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
University of Tasmania Fine Art Collection
Websters, Hobart
West German Landesbank, Hong Kong
Recollections: Revisiting the beginnings of the Devonport Regional Gallery Perma
Exhibitions
6 Feb - 1 May 2021
145-151 Rooke St, Devonport TAS 7310
Colville Gallery
Galleries
91a Salamanca Place, Battery Point
