“My work explores the afterlife of former selves, tracing the space between rebellion and reinvention, memory and becoming. Part self-portrait, part invention, a recurring female figure carries the remnants of lost weekends, wild freedom and hard-won transformation.”
About
Patsy McArthur is a Scottish artist living and working in Brighton, UK. She studied painting in Aberdeen at Gray's School of Art in the late 90s and gained an MFA from the Winchester School of Art Barcelona program in 2001. Since then she has spent periods of time living and working overseas and has been based in Brighton, UK since 2013.
She has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and internationally, held solo shows in Edinburgh, London, and Geneva and shown regularly at London Art Fair, Art Miami, and throughout the US.
Currently her work is available only via direct enquiry. Appointments to visit her Brighton studio can be made by emailing patsymcarthur@hotmail.com
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RWA ANNUAL EXHIBITION
I’m delighted to have had two works selected for the Royal West of England Academy Annual Exhibition in Bristol which opens 12 September 2026, including my large mixed media collage, Night Rider.
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SATELLITE COLLECTIVE
I’m delighted to have been invited to be a part of The Satellite Collective, launched July 2026 affiliated to the wonderful John Marchant Gallery. It is an artist-led platform dedicated to works on paper by a small group of artists for whom working on paper is an integral part of their practices.
I have six curated works on paper available to collect here
https://thesatellitecollective.com/artists/36-patsy-mcarthur/
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DECORAZON GALLERY, NYC
Decorazon Gallery have a selection of my archive realist work at their gallery in the Lower East Side, NYC but ship throughout the US and worldwide. For a full PDF of available work please contact the gallery