Paul Gravett

Country: Canada 🇨🇦

In my photography, I explore intersections of photography and contemporary art where light and colour become the subject matter to reveal rich palettes, patterns, layers, and textures. Using different techniques, all the images start in the camera as I look beyond the object to explore unseen elements and abstractions of the visceral world. Reality recedes and light, colour and pattern create fragments of mysterious ‘otherness’ in these painterly images.

Exhibitions include Art Vancouver, IDS Vancouver, Ferry Building Gallery (West Vancouver, BC), Plaskett Gallery (New Westminster, BC), Glasgow Gallery of Photography, LA Artcore's 4th Annual Photographic Competition and Exhibit (California), Tall Sequoia Gallery (Oregon), Cultural Center of Cape Cod (Massachusetts), Arts Benicia (California), Prairie Village Arts Council (Kansas), Lohme Art Gallery (Sweden), International Festival of Experimental Photography (Barcelona), International Society of Experimental Artists (Michigan), Verum Ultimum Art Gallery (Portland), the 6th Biennale FotoNostrum Gallery (Barcelona), and the Center for Photographic Art (Carmel).

Recent awards include International Color Awards (honourarable mention), London International Creative (finalist), Budapest International Foto Awards (Gold and 2nd Place), Tokyo International Foto Awards (Gold), Minimalist Photography Awards (2021), International Photography Awards (2019, 2020), International Color Award (2021), bronze medal from ThePhotograph, and Wideworld Photography Gala Awards (17th Pollux Awards, winners of abstract series and for digital manipulation and collage series). Colour Study #6 was awarded the 2020 Gracie Award, “Best in Show” from the International Society of Experimental Artists.