Born 1962 England
1966 Arrived in Adelaide, SA
1990 Associate Diploma in Fine Art (Painting), NASA Adelaide, SA
1999 - present: currently residing in the Central wheatbelt, WA

Paul Lacey creates beautiful canvases that figure haunting landscapes, curious creatures and intriguing characters. Each painting invites the viewer into the imaginative and enchanting world created by this exceptional West Australian artist.
Revealing his fascination for the workings of the mind’s subconscious and emanating tragi-comic sensibility, Lacey’s works convey stories about the self-deprecating and melancholic nature of the psyche. He effortlessly portrays the depths of the subconscious through the employment of surrealist techniques and expressionistic elements, rejecting the need for any form of realism which he believes can be a burden to the free-flowing expression of ideas.

Where direct representation of Lacey’s trademark characters are deliberately sidelined, this is hardly so in the case of his superb rendering of light and colour.
Critically acclaimed for his highly theatrical settings, Lacey’s works are awash with intuitive colours and outstanding tonal composition. He creates an intensity of mood for his characters, conveying stories imbued with tension and feelings, heightened by his instinctive use of lighting that streams down upon his characters, from a well-positioned spotlight to dramatic full moon.

Lacey draws parallels within his works to the melancholic theatre of such literary greats as Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Beckett and White. His use of cartoon-like aesthetics provides a self-parodic element to this homage, where the combination of classical representation of light and colour is juxtaposed with the plastic and artificial realism of cartoons.
Born in London in 1962, Paul emigrated to Australia four years later to reside in South Australia. In 1990 Paul completed an Associate Diploma of Fine Art at the NASA, Adelaide. Paul is represented in Artbank, the Taxation Department Adelaide, the FH Faulding Foundation and numerous private collections.

Perron Group
Blake Dawson
Australian Taxation Office, Adelaide
F.H. Faulding Foundation, Sydney
Artbank, Sydney
Jackson McDonald, WA
Poolman Scali Zinni, WA
Southcorp Art Collection LTD, SA
Private Collections throughout Australia and SE Asia