Paul Greenleaf

Dr Paul Greenleaf works across photography, film, sound, installation and print, splicing dream-like visions with everyday realism. Characterised by experimentation, Greenleaf’s multi-media practice draws on influences from sci-fi and popular culture in the territory between personal experience and collective memory. His work explores notions of time and our relationship with technology by foregrounding pre-digital characteristics such as grain, crackle and hiss that highlight the uncanny nature of recording processes.

In 2022, Paul completed a doctorate in fine art researching Temporal Dislocation & Audiovisual Practice. Greenleaf previously studied post-graduate photography at Central Saint Martins. His work has been shown at The Photographers’ Gallery, Midlands Art Centre and Hestercombe Gallery, amongst other places. Awards include the Bar-Tur Photography Award, an Artquest Bursary and short-listing for the Catlin Art Prize. The recent film I Will Become More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine was nominated for Best UK Short Film at the Open City Documentary Festival 2020. Paul Greenleaf is a senior lecturer in visual arts at the University of East London (UEL).