Paul Preece
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
About Paul Preece
Paul Preece is an Oxford based photographer. He was born in the Welsh Valleys and has lived in Spain, Los Angeles and London. From the shifting sands of the desert to moments of modernity lost in the rain on a car windscreen, his work draws upon a range of classical and contemporary photographic traditions. Paul Preece is equally at home on the street with a simple reflex camera or in a medieval cloister with a large format camera that, by its very nature, both technical and cumbersome, slows the photographic process down to a contemplative meditation; a single negative of a cloister can take all day.
“My interest in photography was born 40 years ago in a time when toxic chemicals and darkened rooms were the norm. Photography has evolved since those innocent days and I have evolved with it, but I’m still attached to the idea that a photograph can be taken with one camera, one moment and very little else.”
Education:
BSc Neuroscience, University College London & Caltech, Los Angeles, USA. 1995-1998.
PhD Neuroscience, UCL. 2004.
Events:
2010. Second prize, Casino de Marbella.
2009. Portfolio published in Color fine art magazine, USA.
2009 Portfolio published in Foto, national magazine Spain.
2008. First prize. Concello de La Coruna, Spain.
2007. First prize. IX Certame Fotografico Xose Manuel Eiris, Galicia, Spain.
2006. Primeiro Accesit, IX Certame Fotografico Xose Manuel Eiris, Galicia, Spain.
Exhibitions:
2018 Feb 23-25 Surrey Art Fair.
2017, Nov 11-Dec 17 Oxfordshire Artweeks.
2017 Nov 10-12, Windsor Art Fair.
2017 Oct 13-15 Landmark Art Fair.
2017 Sep 1-3 The Other Art Fair, Arnolfini, Bristol.
2010. Casino de Marbella, Spain.
2009. Casino de La Coruna, Galicia, Spain.
2008. Entrefotos, Centro Cultural de Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain.
2007 Concello de Carballo, Spain.
2006 Concello de Carballo, Spain.
