Join us at Foyles in London to celebrate the launch of Celia Paul’s expansive and long-overdue monograph Celia Paul Works 1975–2025. Paul will be joined by art historian and writer Katy Hessel for an evening of reflection and conversation, demonstrating Paul’s place in the art historical canon, and considering the spirituality and vision that imbue her approach to form, light and movement of paint on canvas. The event will include a book signing.
Tickets available here
Wednesday 9 April
19:00-20:30
Foyles
107 Charing Cross Road
London
WC2H 0DT
About Celia Paul: Works 1975–2025
Celia Paul is an expansive monograph that charts a path through the career of one of the most prolific British painters of the past half century, and includes new writings on Paul’s work by Karl Ove Knausgaard, 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 across fifty years 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.
Accompanies a major exhibition Celia Paul: Colony of Ghosts at Victoria Miro, London from 14 March–17 April 2025.
Image: Celia Paul, ‘Reclining Painter, 2023’. Courtesy of Victoria Miro.
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