Exhibition
Paul Eastwood, Unreadings (production shot)
Unreadings presents a new body of work by Wales-based artist Paul Eastwood, exploring language as both material and site of struggle. Drawing on his lived experience as a dyslexic and neurodiverse bilingual artist, Eastwood transforms miscommunication, misreading, misspelling, and mispronunciation into creative strategies. The exhibition brings together works on paper, sculpture, moving image, and sound to investigate how language constructs identity, memory, and belonging. By revealing the labour, negotiation, and uncertainty embedded in writing, Unreadings invites viewers to consider how meaning is built, disrupted, and remade.
This new work, presented at Mostyn Gallery, continues Eastwood’s practice of working with both longstanding and new collaborators: Samuel Barnes, composer; Dr Angharad Harrop, choreographer; Eilir Pierce, film director; and Dr. Sara Louise Wheeler, lecturer and poet.
Artist profiles and statements
Paul Eastwood
Paul Eastwood was educated at Yale College, Wrexham (2003–2004), Wimbledon School of Arts, London (2004–2007), and the Royal Academy Schools, London (2011–2014). Since returning to Wales, he has won the inaugural NOVA Art Prize (2017) and participated in numerous exhibitions across Wales, England, and Europe. These include a solo show at Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (2019), as well as group exhibitions at Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, and Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno (2023). In 2020, he undertook a three-month residency as Creative Wales Fellow at the British School in Rome, and in 2023–2024 he was awarded the Venice Wales Fellowship.
