born in Stalybridge, United Kingdom

lives and works in London, United Kingdom

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., London

Exhibitions

2025
Faces 2025, group show, Monte Clark / Livingspace, Vancouver, Canada
Art Busan 2025, group show, Busan, South Korea
The Mathematics of Solitude, Hunted Projects, Edinburgh, Scottland (SOLO)
Tight and Loose, Verena Kerfin Gallery, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)

2024
twentyfour, group show, UNION Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2023
A PLAYGROUND IN THE FACTORY, Blackbird Rook, London, United Kingdom (SOLO)
Elbow Eye & Clock, Verena Kerfin Gallery, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Amtsalon Berlin, group show, Verena Kerfin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Putting Your Foot In It!, group show, Blackbird Rook, United Kingdom
UNI[2]ON, group show, UNION Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Weirder Science, group show, Blackbird Rook, London, United Kingdom

2022
Call me a horse, group show, Verena Kerfin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
A Play of Features, UNION Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2020
The Poets Elbow, Belmacz, London, United Kingdom (SOLO)

2019
The Player Becomes the Game, Monte Clark, Vancouver, Canada (SOLO)

2016
Mini Bar, Farbvision, Berlin, Germany

2015
Journeys to the Interior, Belmacz, London, United Kingdom
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, United Kingdom
Studio Stories, Galleria Bianca, Palermo, Italy

2012
England Sleeps, Poppy Sebire Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Paul Housley, ZieherSmith, New York, United States

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, United Kingdom
Night Painting, Horton Gallery, Lower East Side, New York, United States

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

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

2003
New Works, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

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

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, United Kingdom
New Works, University of Northumbria at Newcastle Gallery, United Kingdom

1998
England til it Hurts, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick Upon Tweed, United Kingdom

1997
Poets and Dentists, The 312 Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1996
IF, Alternative Art Galleries, London, United Kingdom

1994
Bummed, The Hockney Gallery, R.C.A. London, United Kingdom

1990
One Man Show, The Graves Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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