In the 1990s Paul Fryer worked as a musician creating, among other things, the soundtrack for Fendi's fashion shows and DJing in Ibiza. Over the last few years he has focused on working as an artist, most recently contributing to 'Reconstruction 1', an exhibition at Sudeley Castle in the Cotswolds curated by Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, who owns Sudeley with her brother and is also the co-director of the Gagosian gallery in London.
For the Sudeley exhibition, Paul Fryer made a work entitled 'Perpetual Study in Defeat', or 'star in a jar' as Fryer refers to it. This ball of glowing, superheated plasma, first developed as a possible means of nuclear fusion, was installed in Sudeley's chapel beside the marble tomb of Katherine Parr.
Fryer is working again with Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst this October for a show she is curating with Damien Hirst's company Science. The exhibition, yet to have a title, opens on 9 October in a large Georgian house at 33 Portland Place in London.
Paul Fryer is also preparing work for his first show in Berlin which will also be the inaugural exhibition for a new 16,000 square foot gallery on Kochstrasse near Checkpoint Charlie. The show, called 'Radiations', opens at Julius Werner Berlin on 1 October. Julius Werner, the son of the Cologne dealer Michael Werner, will focus on contemporary installation and painting in his new gallery.
Galerie JGM in Paris has commissioned Paul Fryer to create new work for a group show curated by Daniel Chadwick which opens on 28 September. Fryer is also making new work for an exhibition in Miami at the Chris Ingalls gallery in January, which will be a joint show with the painter Wolfe Lienkewicz.
If you can't wait until then you can see Paul Fryer's lightning machine sculpture Deus Ex Machina at the Serpentine this November in an exhibition devoted to the private art collection of Damien Hirst, with whom Paul Fryer was at art school in Leeds and who illustrated Fryer's book of poems Don't Be So? published in 2002.
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