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Paul Emsley    (British, 1947)

 Paul Emsley - Bull (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.))
Paul Emsley
Bull 1994
 
  

Biography
1969 Cape Technical College
1970 - 1976 Worked as designer in advertising
1976 Finally as Creative Director of BBDO International, Cape Town Began drawing and painting (self-taught as a painter)
1976 - 1977 Lived in England
1977 Taught design, Cape Technicon
1978 - 1979 Taught design and drawing, Ruth Prowse School of Art
Currently teaching drawing at the Department of Creative Arts, University of Stellenbosch (since 1983)
Awards
Merit Award: Standard Bank National Drawing Competition, 1987
Merit Award: Drawing Competition, South African Association of Arts, 1991
Winner of the 2007 BP Portrait Award
Collections
South African National Gallery
Johannesburg Art Gallery
University of the Witwatersrand
University of the Orange Free State
University of Stellenbosch
William Humphrey's Art Gallery, Kimberley
The British Museum, London

Exhibitions
1994 Paul Emsley, Drawings, Redfern Gallery, London (solo)
1991 Drawing competition: South African Association of Arts, Cape Town
1987 Standard Bank National Drawing Competition
1987 Drawing exhibition: University of the Orange Free State
1985 Cape Town Triennial
1982 Cape Town Triennial
1982 South African Association of Arts, Cape Town (solo)
1981 University of Stellenbosch (solo)
1979 Cape Town Biennial
1978 - 1979 SA touring USA and São Paulo
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