Paul Kneale

Paul Kneale (born 1986 in Toronto, Ontario) is a London based artist whose practice explores the impact of digital technology on the world's perception of reality and art.

[6] In 2020, the CBC exposed an ongoing conceptual project where he circulated highly realistic digital renderings of his paintings in collector's homes to unsuspecting interior decor accounts on Instagram.

Finally, the resulting file is printed on canvas, where this otherwise obscure microcosm is transposed through the visual lexicon of the digital, which can assume the form of acidic colours, evocative shapes and oblique stripes.

The final goal of his scanner paintings is to crystallise – through the gaze of the digital – immaterial entities such as space and time, which we all inhabit but that often elude human perception.

In the ongoing sculptural series 'Event Horizon'[10] Paul Kneale employs found objects – thus expanding on the tradition of the readymade – and glass-encased neon components.

Paul Kneale donated the scanner painting "I Job My Love" (2017) to the 2017 Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Gala Auction, which supports organizations fighting global warming and climate change.