Paul Snell, born in 1968, lives and works in Launceston, Tasmania. His photographic works demonstrate the expansion of the creative potential of digital image making and speak of photography’s transition from object to pure information.
Paul’s work is formal and self-referential in its intentions; colour is the fundamental ingredient and its vibrancy is maximised by form. The absence of signs or objects create a physical, mental and sensorial experience and invites the viewer to drift among primal and tonal aesthetic matter. It immerses the viewer in colour, rhythm and space, creating a sensory experience of inner contemplation and transcendence.
Paul has been working as an artist and teacher for the past 20 years. He has exhibited widely in numerous solo and group exhibitions and his work is held in private and public collections nationally.
Paul has been a finalist in many National Prizes including The Blake Prize (2011), The Geelong Print Prize (2011), The Prometheus Art Award (2011) and The Sunshine Coast Art Prize (2011). In 2012 he won the nationally recognised Tidal Art Prize.
He has gained significant recognition for his work across Australia and abroad, having won national awards including Whyalla Contemporary (2015), Moreton Bay Art Awards (2015) and the Flanagan Art Award (2012), as well as being listed as finalist in numerous awards including the Glover, Gold Coast, Burnie Print, Blake, Manning, Bay of Fires and Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award. His work is included in private and public collections including Artbank, TMAG, Justin House Museum, USA and Germany.
This new body of work Mute explores a softer shadow imprint of colour, the ghosting and shimmer of white light, highlighted by threads of colour reference.
2009 – 11 MCA, University of Tasmania.
1995 – Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons), University of Tasmania.
1990 – Diploma of Education, University of Tasmania.
1987-89 – Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Tasmania.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016
The Liminal Space, QVMAG, Launceston, Tas
Formal, Gallery 9, Sydney, NSW
2015
Intersect, Colville Gallery, Hobart, Tas
Sectant, Gallery 9, NSW
Decoding Sydney, Gaffa, Sydney, NSW
2014
Shift, Colville Gallery Hobart, Tas
2013
Chromophobia, Colville Gallery, Hobart, Tas
Decoding New York. Edmund Pearce Gallery, Vic
Chromophobia, Rex Livingston Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Chromophobia, Jan Manton Gallery, Qld
2012
Afterimage, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tas
The Persistence of Vision, The Colour Factory, Melbourne, Vic
Codes and Convensions, Colville Gallery, Hobart, Tas
2011
Afterglow, 146 Artspace, Hobart, Tas
Selected Exhibitions
2016
The Fishers Ghost Art Prize, Campbeltown Arts Centre, NSW
Flanagan Art Prize, Ballarat,Vic
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Qld
Wyndham Art Prize, Vic
Op Art, Brenda May Gallery, NSW
Noosa Art Price, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD
The Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas
2015
The Whyalla Art Prize, SA
Flanagan Art Prize, Ballarat,Vic
Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW
The Bay of Fires Art Prize, Tas
NEO-O-10, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Vic
Moreton Bay Art Award, Pine Rivers Gallery, Brisbane
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Qld
Paramor Art Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, NSW
Stand Back, Moonah Arts Centre, Tas
AT_Salon_2, Anita Treverso Gallery, Vic
Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tas
2014
Tidal Art Award, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tas
AT_Salon_2, Anita Treverso Gallery, Vic
Melbourne Art Fair, Vic
The Substation Contemporary Art Award, The Substation, Vic
Perceptions of Space: Justin Collection, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Vic
The Art of Sound, Burnie Regional Gallery, Tas
2013
Balck Echo, Stephen Mclaughlan Gallery, Vic
Abstraction 12, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Vic
Banyule Art Award, Hatch Contemporary Art Space, Vic
Spectum Art Fair, New York, New York
Mount Eyre Art Prize, Rex-Livingston Art Dealer, NSW
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Qld
Art Hamptons, International Art Fair, New York
Factory 49 @ Stephen McLachlan Gallery, Vic
Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Glover Prize, Evendale, Tas
Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tas
2012
Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Regional Gallery, Qld
The Blake Prize, Directors Cut Exhibition
Tidal Art Prize, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tas
The Fishers Ghost Art Prize, Campbeltown Arts Centre, NSW
NONOBJECTIVE_Present, 120 Langford Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
Glover Prize, Evendale, Tas
2011
The Whyalla Art Prize, SA
The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbeltown Arts Centre, NSW
The Blake Prize, National Art School, NSW
Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery,QLD
Works In Collections
2015
Pine Rivers Regional gallery, Brisbane
ArtBank
Devonport Regional Gallery
Burnie Regional Gallery
Awards
2015
Winner, Whyalla Art Award
Winner, Moreton Bay Art Award, Pine Rivers Gallery Brisbane
2012
Winner, Flanagan Art Prize, Ballarat,Vic
Winner, Tidal Art Prize, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport
Colville Gallery
Galleries
91a Salamanca Place, Battery Point
The Henry Jones Art Hotel
Galleries
25 Hunter Street, Hobart
View and purchase Paul Snell’s work here: http://www.colvillegallery.com.au/artists/paulsnell.php
