Celia Paul: Works 1975–2025

This first major monograph includes over 300 painted works by Celia Paul, celebrating the artist’s powerful portraiture and landscapes over five decades of work, with texts by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Clare Carlisle, and more.
Celia Paul: Works 1975–2025 is an expansive and longoverdue monograph that charts a path through the career of one of the most prolific British painters of the last century, and includes new writings on Paul’s work by Karl Ove Knausgård, Hilton Als, Clare Carlisle, Edmund de Waal, and Rowan Williams, as well as an essay by Paul herself.  

Beginning with the earliest works made by Paul at the age of fifteen, this extensive volume weaves a chronological sequence through five decades of work. Within the rhythms of the book appear themes and figures that Paul has returned to again and again: her mother, her sisters, the sea, and, crucially, the artist herself. This collection of over three hundred works expresses the tireless inquisitiveness with which Paul approaches her subjects, and the ways painting offers an understanding of the world around her.

Until now, Paul’s work has been largely overshadowed by the canon of male artists who have dominated the landscape of British painting, such as Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, and Lucian Freud, with whom Celia had a long relationship. The works collected in this volume not only demonstrate Paul’s deserved place in the art historical canon, but the deepfelt spirituality and vision that imbue her approach to form, light, and the movement of paint on canvas. 

Accompanies a major show at Victoria Miro gallery in London, opening in March 2025

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