Brief Biography

Paul is an artist with a background in print, printmaking and publishing. His practice inherently combines the use of traditional print methods and materials with new and emerging technologies. He is currently appointed as a lecturer/researcher in Contemporary Arts Practice at the University of Dundee, Visual Research Centre (VRC) Print Publishing facility where he completed his PhD – ‘Designs for Life: art, science and collaboration – a practice led study in fine art printmaking’. He has since been instrumental in establishing Print Festival Scotland and co-convened the 2013 Impact 8 International Printmaking Conference.

His research interests include an on-going investigation into the relationships between art and science - particularly the inter-relations of visual arts and biological sciences. In recent years he has been engaged in projects with scientists at the University of Dundee, the Human Genetics Unit, MRC, Edinburgh and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory New York. For several years he was the resident artist at the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) and visiting fellow/artist in residence at the Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen) at the University of Cardiff. He is currently associate artist with EpiGeneSys, European Network of Excellence based at the Institut Curie, Paris and in 2019 was appointed as a Cameron Visiting Professor in Circumpolar/Northern Research at the University of Alberta.