born in Stalybridge, UK

lives and works in London, UK

Education

1982 Tameside College of Art and Technology, Fine Art Foundation
1986 Sheffield City Polytechnic, Fine Art B.A. (hons)
1995 Royal College of Art, Painting M.A., Londo

Exhibitions

2024
twentyfour, UNION Gallery, London, UK

2023
A PLAYGROUND IN THE FACTORY, Blackbird Rook, UK
Elbow Eye & Clock, Verena Kerfin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Amtsalon Berlin, Verena Kerfin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Putting Your Foot In It!, Blackbird Rook, UK
UNI[2]ON, UNION Gallery
Weirder Science, Blackbird Rook

2022
Call me a horse, Verena Kerfin Gallery, Berlin, UK
A Play of Features, UNION Gallery, London, UK

2022
The Poets Elbow, Belmacz, London, UK

2020
The Poets Elbow, Belmacz, London, UK

2019
The Player Becomes the Game

2016
Mini Bar, Farbvision, Berlin, Germany

2015
Journeys to the Interior, Belmacz, London, UK
Studio for a Mind, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2014
Concrete Oblique, David Risley Gallery, Denmark

2013
A Gentleman Abroad, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
They Bloom at Night, Belmacz, London, UK
Studio Stories, Galleria Bianca, Palermo, Italy

2012
England Sleeps, Poppy Sebire Gallery, London, UK
Paul Housley, ZieherSmith, New York, USA

2011
A Yellow Bird at Night, Peter Bergman, Stockholm, Sweden

2009
Orders from Chaos, Peter Bergman ALP Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2008
Some Have Eyes, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Night Painting, Horton Gallery, Lower East Side, New York, USA

2006
Solo Presentation, Vienna Art Fair, Austria
Heavy Easel, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK

2005
New Works, Durham Light Infantry Museum, Durham, UK
The Boy is made of Plastic, Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland, UK
New Ways to be Alone, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK

2003
New Works, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK

2002
Liste 2002, Young Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
New Works, Nylon Gallery, London, UK

2001
I, Mancunian, The Lowry Gallery, Salford touring under different titles to Nottingham, Angel Row, Leeds City Art Gallery and James Hockey Gallery, Surrey Institute, Arts Council sponsored tour, UK
New Works, Studio Raffaelli, Trento, Italy

2000
Some Things Smell in Denmark, Nylon, London, UK
New Works, University of Northumbria at Newcastle Gallery, UK

1998
England til it Hurts, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick Upon Tweed, UK

1997
Poets and Dentists, The 312 Gallery, London, UK

1996
IF, Alternative Art Galleries, London, UK

1994
Bummed, The Hockney Gallery, R.C.A. London, UK

1990
One Man Show, The Graves Gallery, Sheffield, UK

Publications

2013 Music from the Studio, Belmacz, London
2007 EAST 17, 17 Years of EAST, Norwich Gallery
2007 Berwick Gymnasium Fellowships, Cornerhouse
2006 Heavy Easel, Dispatch, Norwich Gallery
2005 The Boy is Made of Plastic, 66 page Catalogue, Art Editions North
2004 New Works, Exhibition Catalogue, Waygood Gallery
2003 Masters of the Universe, Exhibition Catalogue, Chapter Gallery
2003 Yes! I am a long way from home, Exhibition Catalogue, The Redgate Press
2002 Still Life, Exhibition Catalogue, Gallery Del Tasso Bergamo
2002 Air Guitar, Catalogue, Milton Keynes Gallery
2002nPaul Housley, 58 page Catalogue, Lowry Press
2002 Paul Housley/ Jordan Tinker, 50 page catalogue, Studio Raffaelli
200 The American Easy and Other Stories, University Press