Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications

1994 | Royal Academy Postgraduate Diploma in Painting. Royal Academy Schools, London.  
1991 | BA (Hons) Fine Art 2/1 Nottingham Polytechnic.
1988 | Foundation Certificate in Art and Design. Stourbridge College. 

​Teaching

Lecturer in Art and Design at Shetland College since 1997.

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​Awards

2006 | Vaila Fine Art prize for best painting (Shetland Open exhibition). 
2003 | Prize for best painting (Shetland Open exhibition).
2001 | John Goudie Prize (Printmaking). 
1998 | John Goudie Prize (Printmaking).
1995 | Apthorpe Fund (Painting). 
1994 | Marks and Spencer Award (Painting and Printmaking). 
1994 | Joseph Webb Award (Most Outstanding Student of Etching Under 35). 
1994 | John Purcell Printmaking Prize. 
1992 | Dudley Art Gallery Purchase Prize. 
1992 | Hennington Awar (Figurative Composition). 
1992 | Arthur Hacker Prize (Drawing).

​Collections

Shetland Museum, Dudley Art Gallery, Walsall Art Gallery, Barnett Council, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust, Kings Hospital London, Free Fields Collection, Ruth Borchard Collection of British Self Portraits. Private collections worldwide. 

​Selected Exhibitions

2016 | Pulling the Print. Tatha Gallery, Newport, Scotland.
2015 | Flight. Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly, Scotland.
2015 | Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Award. Piano Noble Gallery, London.
2013 | Solo Show: How Then Shall We Now Live? Mareel, Shetland.
2013 | Solo Show: How Then Shall We Now Live? Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland.
2011 | Solo Show: Unseen. Vaila Fine Art, Shetland.
2010 |Solo Show: Facing the Sea. Boundary Gallery, London.
2009 | Solo Show: Facing the Sea. Shetland Museum.
2008 | 2 Large for ZE / Too Small for The Planet.  Vaila fine Art, Shetland.
2008 | Solo Show. The Art Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
2007 | Solo Show: From The Black Country to Shetland. Boundary Gallery, London.
2007 | Soup: contemporary collage. Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland.
2006 | Christmas show. Kilmorack Gallery, Inverness.
2006 | Highlands And Islands Artists. UHI Millennium Building, Inverness.
2005 | A Brush with Words. Martin's Gallery, Cheltenham.
2005 | Light. Burlington Fine Art, London.
2004 | 20th Century Perspectives. Burlington Fine Art, London.
2004 | Veer North Veers West. Scalloway Woollen Mill, Shetland.
2004 | Veer North Inaugural Exhibition. Shetland Museum.
2003 | Solo show: Recent Woodcuts. Shetland Museum. 
2000 | Solo show: Journey Man. Shetland Museum. 
1999 | Solo show: Streams of Living Water. Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland. 
1998 | Solo show: A Tale of Two Cities. Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland (touring).
1998 | Boundary Landscapes. Boundary Gallery, London. 
1998 | Solo show. Shetland Museum. 
1998 | Lyrical Orientations. Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art, Southampton. 
1997 | Solo show. Clode Gallery, Bridenorth. 
1997 | Mid Art (Print Prize Winner). Dudley Art Gallery. 
1996 | Before and After the Royal Academy. Boundary Gallery, London. 
1995 | Mid Art (Prize Winner). Dudley Art Gallery.
1995 | Making A Mark. Mall Gallery, London.
1994 | Open Exhibition. Royal Overseas League, London.
1994 | Open Door: 40 British Artists. London.
1994 | National Print Exhibition (Second Prize). Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham. 
1994 | New Discoveries. Boundary Gallery, London. 
1994 | In Search of the Black Country. Walsall Art Gallery. 
1994 | National Print Exhibition (Prize Winner). Mall Galleries, London. 
1993 | Solo Show. The Weathered Wall Gallery. Seattle, USA. 
Royal Academy Summer shows, London: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005 .
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Television Programmes

'Heart of the Country' | Central TV. April 27th 1997.
'How then shall we now live?' | Art of Scotland TV. November 23rd 2013.

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Selected Publications and Articles

'How then shall we now live' | Laura Friedlander, Shetland Times, December 2014.
'How then shall we now live' | Interview with Zusanna O'Rourke, Shetland Life, December 2013.
'I-Art' | Jordan Ogg, Shetland Life, June 2011.
'The Water Colours Clinch It' | Peter Davis, Shetland News, May 2011.
'Technology Meets Art in "Brushes" Exhibition' | Jordan Ogg, Shetland Times, April 2011.
'Facing The Sea' | Art of England, April 2010.
'Contemplating Life Whilst Facing the Sea' | Gerald Isaaman, Camden New Journal, April 2010.
'Drenched, Buffeted, Exhilerated' | Jane Mathews, Shetland News, March 2009.
'How a Pensnett Artist Portrays his Black Country Youth and his Remote Island Home' | Black Country Bugle Annual, 2008.
'Artist Paul Ready to go Solo' | Laura Friedlander, Shetland Times, March 2007.
'From Dudley to Shetland' | Stourbridge News. April 2007.
'Black Country as Background' | Alison Oldham, Ham and High, April 2007.
'From Darkest Days to Sunlit Nights' | Black Country Bugle, September 2007.
'Gallery of Paul Bloomer's work' | Shetland Life, April 2007.
'From The Black Country to Shetland' | Essay by Georgina Coburn, www.hiarts.co.uk, 2007.
'From The Black Country to Shetland' | Essay by Phillip Vann, Boundary Gallery Catalogue, March 2008.
'Paradise Discovered' | Phillip Vann, Resurgence Magazine, July/August 2007.
'In Search of a Northern Aesthetic' | New Shetlander, Summer 2006.
'Black Country personality no. 67' | The Blackcountryman, Spring 2005.
'All that Angst is Forgiven' | Shetland Times, Dec 2003.
'You Can Almost Hear the Sploosh' | Shetland Times, November 2000.
'Paul Bloomer' | Stan Hills, Brierley Hill and Life, 1999.
'Temporary and Fragile Balance' | Shetland Times, November 1999.
'Portrait of an Artist' | Nottingham University Network Magazine, November 1997.
'Black Country Brush Strokes' | Express and Star, August 1997.
'Our Mon at the Royal Academy' | The Blackcountryman, Autumn 1993.
'Flying the Flag in the U.S.A' | The Blackcountryman, Winter 1994.
'Black Country Artist in Seattle' | Seattle Down Town News, September 1993.
The Blackcountryman, Front cover, Autumn 1991.​