Paul Chisholm Artist

http://www.gailymail.co.uk/culture/gfest-is-upon-us/ You are here: Home / Culture / GFEST is upon us! GFEST is upon us! November 5, 2011 By Raymund VN:D [1.9.11_1134] Rating: 3.8/ 5 (4 votes cast) GFEST is upon us. Now in its fifth year, London’s LGBT arts festival will be showcasing the best in visual arts, film and performance. Expect highbrow debate, queer controversy and a good old fashioned love-in. The Gaily Mail caught up with one of this year’s artists, Paul Chisholm, to discuss price tags, exhibiting in New York and the issue of Jesus’ HIV status. GFEST – in a nutshell, what’s it all about and how important is LGBT arts in today’s society? GFEST is London’s only lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Arts Festival. LGBT arts are very important in society. There is still a long way to go in gaining equality both abroad and here in the UK.  Art is one of the best tools for changing opinions. GFEST is very selective in ...

Noisy Rain Magazine Volume 1, Issue 5, September 2011.  Here is a selection of pages from the article published about my work. 

Id like to share with you a new article written about my Art, in issue five of noisy rain magazine, dedicated to showcasing Gay Art...... see the link below ! Enjoy ! x  http://issuu.com/ehirano/docs/noisy_rain_magazine_issue_v/1

Clarity through mixed messages Published:  Wednesday, June 15, 2011 3:01 PM CDT BY LILY BOUVIER  Print E-mail Comment  ( 1 comment(s) ) Rate    Text Size     How do you put more than 30 years of pandemic struggle, horror and death into words? In “Mixed Messages,” over 40 artists try their hands at expressing the HIV/AIDS crisis through whatever means possible — from words scrawled on bathroom walls and ceiling ducts, to statements proclaimed in paintings, prints and sculptures, to messages stamped on door handles and floor mats. All of these methods, and more, are employed to communicate messages meant to end the silence (and death) that still persists. The brilliance of those concise messages resides in their endless possibilities: “You do what you do/And they do what they do” (James Joyce), “So what if I did” (Lou Laurita), “Lifestyles/Ultra Sensitive” (Sam McKinniss), “Touch Me” (Yoko Ono). Each can mean one thing to the artist, another to the vi...

mailto: A gallery, an email address, and a printer June 3-24, 2011   //   Opening reception: Friday, June 3   //   7-11pm  Drift Station Gallery is pleased to announce our next exhibition  mailto: , an exhibition built around the open portal of an email address. Beginning in early May, works or messages of any kind sent in the body of an email or as an attachment to anything@driftstation.org were printed and hung, up through the end of the opening reception. 652 emails, totaling over 2,500 pages were printed and installed. mailto:  argues for a curatorial practice akin to chaos theory or aleatoric musical composition – that the initiation of a specific but open structure creates unexpected and diverse results. As the digital files (up until this point infinitely malleable and scalable) reach the printer, they are made manifest as fixed, physical objects; when hung on the gallery wall they each represent a small document in a cur...

The Final Show at metafora was a great evening ! A chance to celebrate a hard working residency, and a dream come true ! Now its time to move onwards and upwards ! With a show in New York opening tonight ! A move to Palma, Mallorca, where i will open my own studio, and viewing Gallery, More info on this in the coming months ! 

For the first time my work will be shown amongst such Art stars as Felix- Gonzalez Torres, + Yoko Ono ! Very exciting ! Go check out the show if you are in New York this June !