As an artist, Carter relies on chance encounters with, as Lee Ufan describes, the other. Through paint, photography, video and installation, he searches for the uncertain border between reality, illusion and the imagination. Emerging from the artist's obsession with the nature of looking and seeing, Carter presents things that lie outside of time, things on the verge of disappearance and things that make the world more vividly visible.
From a sensibility of organic generation, Carter's work deepens our experience of place by extending beyond conventional notions of spatial containment and by exploring associations between sourced objects, place and the image.
Paul Carter was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1979. Graduating with a BA in Painting from the National College of Art & Design in 2001, Carter went on to become part of a small group of artist/educators in Wexford who founded Gorey School of Art. Today, Gorey School of Art is a hive of creative activity an
