Paul Noble was born in 1963. He is a brittish visual artist and was nominated for the turner prize in 2012. He is an english painter and installation artist. Paul completed his degree in fine arts at humberside college of higher education in1986. Afterwards, he moved to london where he became a founding member of an artist run gallery City Racing. Here he held his first exhibitions which involved small drawings and paintings of dream-like worlds. He used new worlds of drawings in a place between hilarity and despair. His most notable drawings of nobson newtown has takin more than half of his life. He starts all of his drawings off at the top left hand corner and creates as he goes through.
Nobson newton was his most recognized work. It was all on a fictional city that he worked on for over ten years. Series of large scale pencil drawings made up this city and resembled a form of soviet bloc housing. he never portrays people in these either. Some of the notable ones were the Nobspital and Nobson central.
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In this drawing you see mounds of stone topped with rocks that give it the same look as a desert. It causes the eye to keep looking at all the countless stones. This drawing uses flat lighting and unchanging angles of shadows. Everywhere you look you can see lurking geometry, even in the sun.
Nobspital.
Lidonab is a large penil drawing done on a piece of paper over 4 meters across,or about 13 feet. This is also part of the series drawing of nobson newtown. The fact no inhabitants are in the picture gives it the eerie feeling of a ghost town.
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Playframe is a drawing done by pencil that shows a childrens climbing frame. It is a realistic drawing using line work and shadow effects which give it depth.
Family is Infinity portrays another part of newtown, this uses an array of circular clumps and a ghostly look to it.
Aside from all of the drawings noble did, he also did some sculptures. When looking at these, the first thing that jumps act that they look like turds. All of his sculptures give this look. In this one it shows a turd sitting on top of another one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S600TeCcyyw&feature=player_detailpage
www.google.com/images/paulnoble
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/paul-noble
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/paul-noble-2767