JOSEPH PAXTON b. 1981 Monmouthshire, Wales

Joseph Paxton grew up in rural Wales and was introduced to sculpture in his formative educational years. He went on to study fine art at Newcastle University from 2001-2005, graduating with a BA Honor’s Fine Art in 2005. He currently lives and works in London.

Joseph Paxton’s work explores both the physical and psychological juxtapositions of strength, vulnerability, simplicity, and complexity within animals and humans. Often drawing parallels between the two species, he explores behaviors, emotions, and states of being, delineated through physical dynamic. The connection between living beings and their environment as well as the exploration of the human animal are common themes in his work.

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RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2017 Artist in residence with National Parks Arts Foundation, Gettysburg National Park, USA
2015 Artist in residence with Utah University, The Taft Nicholson Center for Environmental Humanities, Montana, USA
2009 Shortlisted artist, Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

2018 A/Side B/Side Gallery, London
2016 GP Studio The Arch Window, London, UK
2013 Liberty London, March window display, London, UK
2012 Grosvenor Square, London, Sight Hound III on public display as part of Olympic sculpture trail
2011 Basement Gallery, Newburgh Street, London, UK
2008 Morgan Lovell, Soho, London, UK
2005 The Muse at 269, An Exhibition of Drawing and Sculpture, Portobello Road, London, UK

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

2021 Birds of a Feather, Pangolin London, London, UK
2021 Winter Collective, Hugo Galerie, New York, NY
2020 Summer Collective, Hugo Galerie, New York, NY
2020 Winter Collective, Hugo Galerie, New York, NY
2019 Summer Collective, Hugo Galerie, New York, NY
2019 Winter Collective, Hugo Galerie, New York, NY
2018 Summer Collective, Hugo Galerie, New York, NY
2018 Winter Collective, Hugo Galerie, New York, NY
2017 Summer Collective, Hugo Galerie, New York, NY
2017 Winter Collective, Hugo Galerie, New York, NY
2015 Sculptor’s Prints and Drawings, Pangolin London, London, UK
2014 Wildlife Artist of the Year Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2013 Reigning Cats & Dogs, Royal West of England Academy, international invitational exhibition, UK
2013 Sculptors’ Drawings and Works On Paper, Pangolin London, London, UK
2013 Three British sculptors alongside Panter & Hall’s Scottish show, Lloyds Club London, London, UK
2013 Best In Show: The Dog, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire, UK
2011 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, UK
2011 Leading British Sculptors, Osbourne Studio Gallery, London, UK
2011 Hare Styling, Charity fundraising exhibition for Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
2011 Beast, Pangolin London, London, UK
2010 Winter Show, Pangolin London, UK
2010 Elephant Parade London, Created one of the 250 elephants exhibited as part of London’s largest public art event
2010 Seven Sculptors, Whittington Fine Art, Henley, UK
2010 London Art Fair, London, UK
2009 Threadneedle Prize Exhibition, Shortlisted for Threadneedle Prize
2009 Mall Galleries, London, UK
2008 Winter Show, Courcoux & Courcoux Contemporary Art, Stockbridge, UK
2007 Artists retrospective group show, The Muse at 269, Portobello Road, London, UK
2005 The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle Upon-Tyne, UK
2005 Fine Art Degree Show, University of Newcastle Upon-Tyne, UK
2004 The Globe Gallery, North Shields, Northumberland, UK

PUBLICATIONS

2015 Point Suite Contemporary Art Book – Published in the USA by AI
Productions.
2012 Sculptors’ Drawings & Works on Paper – Exhibition publication. Published by Pangolin London.
2010 Elephant Parade London 2010 – Art Book.