Collection of PAUL HAZELTON in a gallery layout

PAUL HAZELTON

Born in Margate in 1962, Paul grew up in a pristine, somewhat claustrophobic home environment, where he was only permitted to use pencil in the sterile setting of a covered table. His fascination with dust also originated from this deprivation from these, often unappreciated, forms of matter. Paul’s continuing return to drawing is a return to his origin; a need to touch base or to be in contact with a surface, just like how dust needs to. In many of Paul’s drawings, images are gently teased from densely drawn or woven geometric matrices. These structures, which Paul also sometimes creates three-dimensionally from human hair, he uses to reveal or capture hidden patterns or proportions. In essence Paul is searching, through his work, for the ultimate quintessence, the thing that holds everything together. The relation between beings and geometry has become a metaphysical quest for Hazelton, trying to understand the human pursuit for perfection when in the face of decay.

ARTWORKS

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EXHIBITIONS

SPACE: GROUP EXHIBITION

6 - 28 November 2026

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S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S

2026 AGE: The Multidimensional Aspect of Time Margate School of Art

2025 Gojenje Prahu/Dust Breeding Ptuj Castle Slovenia ArtStays Festival PRAH/DUST

2023 Drawn to Dust The Lido Stores, Margate

2019 No Stone Left Unturned ACE funded residency and exhibition | Margate Caves

2017 Lost Property 2071 residency and exhibition London Bridge Station

2016 Ghosts in the Making Hendricks Commission | Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Natural History and Fine Art, London
 Tempus Fugit Oeuvres de Paul Hazelton Ecole d’Art de Saint-Omer, France

2013 DNA and Dust Joint show with Heather Dewey-Hagborg | QF Gallery, NY

2012 Turn inaugural solo show Herrick Gallery, London

2010 Play and Dirt: crayons and dust Joint solo with Herb Williams | RARE, NY

2007 Expecting the Unexpected | Maidstone Library Gallery Maidstone

2000 The Point Is? | Whitstable Contemporary Arts Festival, The Old Ambulance Station
 The Bug | Light installation commissioned by Box Clever Theatre Co, South Quay, Whitstable Harbour, Whitstable, Kent, UK

C O M M I S S I O N S



2025 
Margate Shell Grotto residency and mural project | a contemporary recreation in paint of the existing shell mosaic wall that was destroyed from a WW2 bomb blast based on early photographic evidence

2020-2022 
Future Gathering | a series of dust figure portraits developed and specially commissioned during the Covid 19 pandemic 
The Great Conjunction | year long drawing private commission for London collector

2014 
Godot Tree | a completely hollowed out tree for The Godot Company’s new production of Waiting for Godot at the Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone, London that was suspended in the centre of the theatre

2012
Fur sculpture | A year long commission from the art collector Sarah M. Vance Waddell (Cincinnati Ohio) to make a sculpture of her dogs from their fur 

2006 
Exploding Map | public art commission, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable


C O L L E C T I O N S 



Beth Rudin DeWoody - The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, Florida

Collection of the artist Hernan Bas - Miami, Florida

21c Museum Hotel Louisville, KY, US

Thomas Olbrecht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Sarah M. Vance Waddell collection Cincinnati, Ohio 

Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, London

The Collection of Marsha and Robin Williams, California and San Francisco



G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S



2026
Micromania | Liminal Gallery x Kalkman Gallery, Maastricht

Front Back | Off Season Margate



2025

Anthropocene | Maximillian Wolfgang Gallery, Shoreditch, London



2024 

London Art Fair | England & Co Business Design Centre, Islington

Fierce Scandal | alternative Valentine group show at Lido Stores, Margate



2023
Shelf Life | Blue Door Gallery, St Andrew’s Mews, Hastings

Autres Choses | England & Co at the Sotheran’s Building, Piccadilly London

FIAT BULB: The Edison Syndrome | Salone del Mobile Milan

The Wild Thought | The Lido Stores Margate



2022 

The Great Imagining | The Ideas Factory, Canning Town, London

Nature Morte | UNC Charlotte, College of Art + Architecture, University Gallery, USA



2020

Paper Trail | Maidstone Museum curated by Dawn Cole

Heads Will Roll after Nancy Fouts 1945-2019 | matches from Nancy’s studio used in honour of her wit and humour and to mark the closure of Herrick Gallery, Piccadilly 



2019

Miniscule Venice | Fondamenta Sant’ Anna 996, Castello 30122, Venezia
Miniscule Part 2 | Cross Lane Projects, Cross Lane, Kendal Cumbria



2018

Animals and Us | Turner Contemporary, Margate

Cabinet Da-End 08 | Galerie Da-End, 17 rue Guénégaud, 75006 Paris



2017

Nature Morte | Guildhall Museum, London touring from The Four Domes Pavilion,
Wroclaw, Poland

Master of All Trades: Ruskin Drawing Prize 2017 shortlisted exhibition | Millennium Gallery, Sheffield



2016

Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life | Konsthallen at Bohuslan Museum, Sweden touring from Ha gamle prestegard, Stavanger, Norway
Curated by Michael Petry to accompany his book of the same name

Dignified and Curiosities: work selected from Thomas Olbricht’s collection for
Los Carpinteros installation ‘Helmet’ | Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Wolves, Magic and Spinning Wheels: The Anatomy of Fairy Tales | Maslow
Galleries, Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art, Pennsylvania

Shuffle | Summer Exhibition Herrick Gallery, Piccadilly London

Curio: Sites of Wonder | Studio 3 Gallery, Jarman Building, University of
Kent, Canterbury



2015

INVITED 9 Hillgate Street, Notting Hill, London. Curated by Flora Fairbairn of Fair &
Co and Philly Adams of The Saatchi Gallery

Monsters and Masks | Art Barter - Studio Colbert, Columbia Road, London

Paul Hazelton, Reece Jones, Matthew Killick and Minnie Weisz | Herrick Gallery Piccadilly Inaugural exhibition, 93 Piccadilly, Mayfair, London

The Infected Museum | Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art and Natural History

Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life | Ha gamle prestegard, Stavanger, Norway curated by Michael Petry & Eva Watne. Assistant curators: Robert Ekholm & Ingunn Nord-Varhaug

DUST | Museum of Everyday Life, Vermont USA

Waste Agency | Platform 7 Leadenhall London

Sex Shop | Transition Gallery, Unit 25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8
4QN curated by Sarah Gillham, Jack Stockoe and Derren Nairn touring from Folkestone Fringe 2014



2014

De-In-stall: a fete accompli a collaborative project with Tom Swift for A Fete Worse Than Death: celebrating the memory of the legendary Joshua Compston | Rivington Street, London - touring to the Art Car Boot Fair, Folkestone, Herrick Gallery, London and Cavendish Square underground car park

Miniare | Bo . Lee The Crate, Notting Hill, London

Factual Nonsense | Red Gallery, London

Art14 London | Gallery Nosco, Olympia Grand, Hammersmith Road, London 

Chinese Open | Q Park Chinatown, London 



2013

Wonderful: Humboldt, Krokodil & Polke | ME Collectors Room The Olbricht Foundation, Berlin

INTIMACY | Gallery Nosco in collaboration with Frameless Gallery 20 Clerkenwell Green, London

Building Bridges/La Construccion de Puentes | Fundacion Rozenblum, BSM Art Building, Boulogne, Argentina

The Edible Print Project | AVM Curiosities in association with Herrick Gallery Art Car
Boot Fair, The House Gallery, Camerwell Arts festival, Herrick Gallery

Scope New York with Rare Gallery Skylight at Moynihan Station, New York



2012

Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Being | All Visual Arts (AVA) The Crypt, One Marylebone Road London

Adventure | Herrick Gallery, 1 French Place, Shorditch, London

Homage to Domestic Familiarity 2  | Anya Trish Gallery, Houston Texas 

Plate | Herrick Gallery, London

Scope, New York | with Rare Gallery New York

Beasts Royal | Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London

Red List | Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, Kent, England

Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design | Museum of
Arts and Design, New York



2011

Glitterbug | Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London. Curated by Alice Herrick
Dear ladies of the Church | Art in Romney Marsh, Romney, Kent, England. Curated
by Angela Kingston

What is Food? | Moonbow Jakes & The Lido Margate Kent, England (Platform7)

Dirty Little Secret | Indica on 11th, New York. Curated by Wendy Worth-Asher



2010

House of Fairy Tales | Salisbury Arts Centre, Wiltshire; Millennium Gallery, St Ives,
Cornwall; Art of Giving, Saatchi Gallery, London. Curated by Alice Herrick

Exquisite Trove | Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall. Curated by Alice Herrick

Remnants | Fuse Gallery, New York

London Calling: Tribute to Ray Lowry | See Gallery, Lancashire; Tokyo Hipster
Club, Tokyo Japan; Idea Generation Gallery, London

Magnitude 7 | Manifest, Cincinnati, Ohio

Shoebox Auction and Exhibition | Kidsco & The Bryan Adams Foundation, Haunch
of Venison, London

Scope New York | with Rare Gallery New York



2009

8×12 | Rare Artists Group Show, RARE Gallery, New York

Scope, Miami | with Rare Gallery New York

Platform | Raymond Gun Gallery, London

The Affluenza Exhibition | 187 – 211 St. John Street Clerkenwell London

Travelling Light | Venice Biennale, Wilson Williams Gallery, London



2007

Decadence, Decay and the Demimonde | Home House, and 92 George Street, London Curated by Ben Austin and Deana Vanagan

Zoo Art Fair | Saatchi Gallery stand at Royal Academy of Arts, London

Pathogeographies | Festival of political emotion, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA



2006

Unnatural Selection | Shrewsbury Museum and Art gallery Shropshire

Defend/Défendre | Les Ramparts, Saint-Omer, France; Deal Castle, Deal Kent Curated by Christine Gist and Benoît Warzée



C U R A T O R I A L



2002 - 2015 Limbo Margate | Founder member director and curator 

2010 Dead Season Live Art | a six week commissioning event presenting work from live (performance) artists from across the UK to enliven the winter season in Margate
2014 De-In-Stall: A Fete Accompli | for the 20th anniversary of A Fete Worse Than Death, London
2015 Miniature Museum | Art Car Boot Fair, Margate - miniature curated museum of curiosities set up in an assembled beach hut for the day

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