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PAUL DALY



Paul’s highly personal and experiential work focuses on marginalised communities, the working class, and the effects of austerity through the use of analogue formats in still and moving image.

In 2018 he was one of 100 winners of The British Journal of Photography’s ‘Portrait of Britain’ prize and was exhibited nationwide.

His film ‘Mirrors’, a seven year effort supported by BFI Doc Society, premiered in the International Short Competition at this year’s Sheffield DocFest.

Based in Coventry, U.K.



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FURNITURE OF MY IMAGINATION



Artist Moving Image | 16mm | 4:3

A study of solitude as a medicinal melancholy, a necessary and positive method for introspection and reflection as well as home to one’s own despairing and weighted thoughts of mortality. Focussing on my own father, the images were born from our relationship with this state of being. The city of Coventry’s culture, history and concrete landscape’s impact on my persona also plays its part.

The film was made in response to 18th Century diary excerpts provided by Warwick University based researcher Dr Naomi Pullin. The title was taken from a poem by diarist Gertrude Saville.

Director, Writer, Camera, Editor, Sound - Paul Daly
Subject - Gerard Daly
Researcher - Dr Naomi Pullin

Commissioned by Coventry Creates
Funded by Arts Council England 

Watch here: coventrycreates.co.uk/project/furniture-of-my-imagination/
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