ABOUT
Paul Ewart is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice draws on more than two decades of international storytelling, image-making and cultural observation. Originally from the United Kingdom, Paul studied at Manchester School of Art before completing an honours degree in Politics and Media Studies. He went on to forge an award-winning 20-year career as a senior journalist and television producer across print, digital and broadcast media in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
That career took Paul from major international newsrooms and television studios to fashion shoots, celebrity portraiture and destinations around the world, cultivating an acute sensitivity to narrative, perspective and the ways identities are constructed, performed and projected. Today, he translates those instincts into a contemporary art practice spanning sculpture, large-scale painting and hand-finished fine-art photography.
Central to Paul’s work is an exploration of identity and duality: the tensions between public and private selves, strength and vulnerability, conformity and difference, and the often contradictory identities we inhabit simultaneously. Masculinity and queer identity recur throughout his practice, with traditional representations of the male body and established archetypes of masculinity frequently dismantled, reconfigured or placed in states of vulnerability.
Ancient mythology provides a recurring visual and conceptual language. Paul is drawn to archetypal, anthropomorphic and hybrid forms—figures occupying the space between human, animal, myth and symbol—and to the capacity of ancient narratives to illuminate contemporary questions of identity, desire, power and belonging. His ongoing Janus series takes the two-faced Roman deity as a point of departure for investigations into duality, ideological division, opposing perspectives and the instability of contemporary truth. Elsewhere, mythological figures and classical forms are reimagined through a distinctly contemporary lens, challenging inherited ideas of heroism, masculinity and the body.
Across mediums, Paul is drawn to moments of friction and contradiction—where opposing states coexist, fixed identities become unstable and familiar archetypes are disrupted. His work brings the instincts of a lifelong storyteller to a visual practice concerned ultimately with the complexity of identity: how we see ourselves, how we are seen by others, and what happens when seemingly opposing versions of the self are forced to occupy the same space.
In 2026, Paul was selected to exhibit at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, marking a major milestone in the evolution of his practice.
Paul has lived in Bondi for more than a decade and works from his home studio there, alongside his husband and two rescue dogs.
The coastline and its shifting relationship between body, architecture and natural environment remain an important part of Paul's visual language.