Paul Le-Tallec

Paul Le-Tallec's work is about the existential anxiety of modern life. Drawing from feelings about reality he attempts to reflect the nervous system or the ‘self’ as closely as possible through the construction of suggestive forms. He pulls experimental compositions together using regurgitated digital print and paint while holding on strictly to an initial idea and its meaning.

His practice celebrates the importance of living today through direct emotional beliefs, challenging common perceptions on mortality, religion, honesty and failure, often reflecting the vulgarity of mankind and the blind movement of the masses. It is important to strip away pomposity and falseness to attack convention. By striving to achieve a claustrophobic element within the work itself, an over indulgence then has to be restricted, reflecting both our social and political structures today.

He is interested in the physical reality of our existence, often asking 'what is it to be human'. Conflict and contrast exist between the representative element and the formally constructed within his compositions, the process of resolving this is an important part of his work.

In a recent interview he said "Today, most of us rush around as if there is no more to lif...

Paul Le-Tallec was born in 1974. He gained a degree in Fine Art from Anglia Ruskin University in 1997 and has been exhibiting Internationally and creating bespoke large and small scale commissions for public spaces ever since. He lives in Cambridge practicing and teaching fine art and contemporary printmaking. He is also the founder of an Internationally renowned creative collective called tangcreative.

Butler-Goode Gallery, Australia
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
Ruskin Gallery, UK
London Art Fair, UK
London Art, UK
Art Sydney, Australia
Cambridge Galleries, UK
Mall Galleries, UK
International Mini Print Exhibition, UK