Over a forty-year career, Manchester-born Paul Housley has documented the transformations of high and low cultural life in Britain with searingly inventive compositions that interrogate how we consume culture, and how culture is mediated to us in art, cinema, literature, and the public sphere. In this new body of work, in which he tackles subjects ranging from the Mancunian loneliness of L. S. Lowry, unfulfilled desires, elite Scandinavian museums, and the decline of arts education in England, Housley pushes the legibility of the human figure to extremes while always maintaining an uncompromising empathy for his subjects.
