03/04/25
Celia Paul: Colony of Ghosts* and Celia Paul: Diaries**
Victoria Miro, London*
14 March – 17 April 2025
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London**
21 March – 2 May 2025
There is something incredibly spiritual about Celia Paul’s paintings, and this is magnified in her exhibitions, such that entering the gallery is almost like entering a cathedral. This feeling is in part engendered by the glowing haloes and luminescent auras around so many of her subjects, and the sense of omnipotence in her seascapes and “portraits” of trees and flowers, and in part by the absent presence of the artist herself, regardless of whether or not the image is a self-portrait.
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