Paul Feiler CONNECTIONS "Feiler wants to lead the onlooker beyond the stages of recognition and seeing to that of looking, so that by looking - and feeling - each individual should make new, personal connections with the world around." " .. The sequence of illustrations reinforces the identity of the artist throughout the different stages of his career and reveals some of the themes to which he is constantly returning. Chief among these is an acute awareness of what is hidden, whether in the contrasts of light and dark as shadows fall on trees or on columns, or in the recesses of a tunnel or a shrine .. " Michael Raeburn, 2002 (from Paul Feiler CONNECTIONS, The Redfern Gallery, London, and Le Cadre Gallery, Hong Kong with Cacklegoose Press, 2002) Postcard of Grindelwald   Pisa Photograph by Paul Feiler, 1947   Venice Photograph by Paul Feiler, 1947   Cape Cornwall Photograph by Paul Feiler, 1949   Photograph in Picture Post, 1952   Postcard of Mycenae   Paul Feiler outside St Paul's School, Penzance Photograph by Andrew Lanyon, 1964   Paul Feiler's Studio Photograph by Bob Berry, 1995   Sibyl's Cave at Cuma, Naples Photograph by Paul Feiler, 1997   Sibyl's Cave at Cuma, Naples Photograph by Paul Feiler, 1997   Rheims Cathedral Photograph by Paul Feiler, 1998   Green Trees in Germany Photograph by Paul Feiler, 2000   The studio reflected in a searchlight mirror Photographed by Paul Feiler   Shed at Kerris Photograph by Paul Feiler, 2001   Window at Kerris Photograph by Paul Feiler, 2001   Biography 1918  Born, Frankfurt am Main 1934  Came to England - educated Cranford School 1937-40  The Slade 1941-46  The Art Master at the Combined Colleges of Eastbourne and Radley 1946-75  Taught at West of England College of Art - became head of painting in 1960 1949  First visited Cornwall 1950  Work became more abstract. 1953  Bought chapel at Kerris, Paul, near Penzance where he now lives with his wife, the painter, Catharine Armitage. 1975  Takes over Bryan Winter's studio near Paul, a barn converted for the painter Stanhope Forbes in the mid-nineteenth century Solo Exhibitions 1953/54/56/57  Redfern Gallery, London 1954  Obelisk Gallery, Washington DC 1958  Obelisk Gallery, Washington DC 1959  Redfern Gallery, London 1961  Arnolfini, Bristol 1962  Grosvenor Gallery, London 1965  Grosvenor Gallery, London Victoria Art Gallery, Bath 1966  Balliol College JCR, Oxford Clare College JCR, Cambridge 1969  Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh Sheviock Gallery, Plymouth 1972  Archer Gallery, London 1975  Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg St Clements Hall, Mousehole 1977  Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives 1979  Meredith College, NC, USA Duke University, NC, USA 1981-82  Crawford Centre for the Arts, University of St Andrews and toured to: Alpirsbacher Galerie, Alpirsbach EKG Kunst, Stuttgart, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton Warwick Arts Trust, London: introduction by John Steer 1982  Fayetteville Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA: introduction by Phyllis A McLeod 1993  Redfern Gallery, London: introduction by John Steer 1994  Redfern Gallery, London 1995/96  Retrospective Exhibition, Tate Gallery, St Ives 1996  Redfern Gallery, London 1998  The Rotunda, Hong Kong Land, Hong Kong 1999  Redfern Gallery, London 2002  "Connections", Redfern Gallery, London and Le Cadre, Hong Kong Redfern Gallery, London 2003  Works on Paper, Redfern Gallery, London 2005  Janicon, Redfern Gallery, London The Near and The Far, Tate Gallery, St Ives Redfern Gallery, London Tate St. Ives 2007  Redfern Gallery, London Group Exhibitions 1949  Young Contemporaries, ACGB (Western Region exhibition at Bristol City Art Gallery 1950  Bristol City Art Gallery, (With Bryan Wynter, R W Treffgarne, Adrian Ryan, Patrick Heron) 1952  Bryanston School, Dorset (with Bryan Wynter, William Scott, Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron) The Mirror and the Square, AIA New Burlington Galleries 1953  The Unknown Political Prisoner, ICA West Country Landscapes ACGB (Western Region touring exhibition, also shown in Germany) Coronation Exhibition, The Redfern Gallery, London Figures in their Setting, Tate Gallery British Contemporary Paintings, Arts Council Gallery, London 1954  Nine English Painters, Dublin The Octagon, Bath (with Wynter, Potworowski and Lanyon) The Seasons, Tate Gallery 1956  Statements - a review of British Abstract art in 1956, ICA, London, curated by Lawrence Alloway Aspects of contemporary English painting, Parsons Gallery, London 1957  British Abstract Painting, Paris, Milan, Montreal Melbourne, Sydney Metavisual, tachiste and abstract painting in England today, Redfern Gallery, London Dimensions: British abstract art 1948-1957, O'Hana Gallery, London (curated by Lawrence Alloway) 1958  British Abstract Painting, Redfern Gallery, London exhibition toured to: Auckland, Liège, Johannesburg, Cape Town 1959  Architect's Choice ICA, London 50 Years of British Painting, CAS exhibition organised by Denis Matthews and shown through the 'Friends of China' in Peking and Shanghai 1960-61  Contemporary British Landscapes, ACGB touring exhibition 1961  John Moore's, Liverpool British Painting in the '60's, Tate Gallery Arnolfini, Bristol 1964  Lanyon, Hilton, Feiler, Davie, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol 1966  British Painting 1950-57 ACGB touring exhibition 1972  Two (works each) by seven (artists) Archer Gallery, London 1977  Cornwall 1945-55, New Art Centre, London 1980  Art in the making, Brewhouse Art Centre, Bristol 1985  St Ives 1939-64: twenty-five years of painting sculpture and pottery, Tate Gallery, London (curated by David Brown, introduction by David Lewis) 1989  Post-war British abstract art, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (introduction by Margaret Garlake) 1999  'Orbis - Towards and Beyond' - A historical exhibition of works done before, during and after the Moon Landing in 1969, Redfern Gallery, London 2000  ART 2000 - Redfern Gallery stand devoted entirely to the work of Paul Feiler Collections UNITED KINGDOM British Council Worcester City Museum Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums Victoria Art Gallery, Bath Ulster Museum, Belfast Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Art Gallery, Bolton Clare College, Cambridge Kettle's Yard, Cambridge Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery Bishops Otter College, Chichester Cornwall County Education Committee Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum Leeds City Art Gallery Leicestershire County Education Committee Liverpool University Arts Council of Great Britain, London Contemporary Art Society, London Government Art Collection, London St Thomas' Hospital, London Tate Gallery, London Victoria and Albert Museum, London London University Altnagelvin Hospital, Londonderry Manchester City Art Gallery Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne   AUSTRIA Albertina, Vienna   CANADA Hamilton Art Gallery Toronto Art Gallery   FRANCE Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris   NEW ZEALAND National Gallery, Wellington Dunedin Art Gallery   USA Meredith College, Raleigh NC The Principia, St Louis MO Pennsylvania State University, State College PA Toledo OH Museum of Art Gallery of Modern Art (Tremayne Gift), Washington DC Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington DC
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