Exhibition: Celia Paul, out of the shadows

20 March 2025, The Tablet

Celia Paul’s Reclining Painter (2023)

© CELIA PAUL, COURTESY THE ARTIST AND VICTORIA MIRO

“Lucian Freud,” said my friend, as we stood in front of a female nude, lying on her back, knees bent, a hard-boiled egg on a plate below her. It certainly was Freud-like: and in a show called “Colony of Ghosts” (to 17 April) that can’t be a coincidence.

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