Paul Compton


Exhibition Thank Yous

Posted 6 months ago

Just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who has gone to see my latest show Tender Things at Hand Held Gallery. The opening night was a wonderful, fun success and I am so happy to still be hearing feedback from people about it.
If you’d like to read a description of the show please see the Hand Held Gallery blog
The show will stay up ‘til the…

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Solo Exhibition: Tender Things

Posted 7 months ago

Tender Things is my latest solo exhibition and it opens on the 30th of April at the gorgeous Hand Held Gallery in Bourke Street Melbourne city.
Hand Held Gallery is an amazing small scale space and as well as being a gallery space it also features handmade book arts and objects by local artists as…

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Interview with pinkyjain

Posted about 1 year ago

My second in a series of interviews that started here

When I first encountered the work of pinkyjain I knew I had stumbled onto a completely unique, talented and spirited indivi…

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Interview with John Douglas

Posted about 1 year ago

Next up in the series of artist interviews that started here is the marvelous John Douglas.

My first encounter with the work of John Douglas left me reeling and I have been e…

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Paul Gets Interviewed by Mui-Ling Teh

Posted about 1 year ago

Oh me oh my…....

I’ve just been interviewed by the lovely Mui-Ling as a part of Mission Share the Love – find out all about this clever idea initiated by Jo O’Brien here

Here it is: Paul Compton Interview...

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Paul Does "Wicked"

Posted about 1 year ago

Hello everyone! Welcome to my first journal entry…

I’m putting up some new drawings that I did whilst reading and thoroughly enjoying the book Wicked by Gregory Maguire. For anyone who hasn’t read it it is essentially a re-imagined back story to L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. We get to see how Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, came to be considered evil. The book really g…

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