I introduce myself as ‘Artist, Writer & Lecturer‘ – in that order.
In fact, I have also occasionally curated and I write, record and perform songs (that you can find here under Music), but I feel that the first three are enough when introducing myself, and that these three form the core of my professional creative profile.
I mostly upload works to my site which I feel are tested, resolved, completed if possible through being already published and exhibited in ‘the real world.’
Nevertheless, as this site has grown so organically, over several years there remains a lot of un-exhibited and un-published material here that I value and want to archive and share but which I am always hoping to find more time to edit now that I have control over my site via WordPress.
I hope you enjoy rambling around in my site, and please feel free to contact me: pok(use @)okpaul.com
N.B. I would like to thank the team of Catherine O’Kane and the late Rob Fone (AKA Basement South‘) – who made the initial design of this site, also Paul Abbott -who recently converted it to WordPress, and Elvina Mercedes Flower – who now maintains this site.
NEWS! September 2025 Publication and Launch of my new book titled ‘Classanoia, or Falling Up – a handbook for class migrants’
CLASSANOIA is a concept conjured by the author to open up a different space for the discussion of class. This little book contains autobiography laced with long-held thoughts and ideas wrapped in candidly expressed reflections on the theme. The title alludes to a kind of pathology and disorientation encountered by those who feel they might be necessarily migrating from one class to another, without any signposts or satisfactory sense of arrival. Meanwhile, another newly coined concept aims to allow ‘class migration’ to share vocabulary and compare experiences with geographic migration. See eeodo publisher’s website: https://eeodo.co.uk/
It was a real pleasure and a privilege to present my book ‘Classanoia’ in the context of a discussion on the photography exhibition ‘Many Hands’ held on 13th Sept at Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley near Leeds. The links below lead to the show, the venue, and the Working Class Collectives Database who organised the show. there is also a link to the work of Jennifer Reid who gave a performance of working songs from the age of the industrial revolution, and a link to the eeodo website where you can see and purchase ‘Classanoia’ and all the eeodo publications.
https://www.workingclasscreativesdatabase.co.uk/
https://www.jenniferballads.com/
https://www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/arts/gallery/many-hands/
https://eeodo.co.uk/
NEWS – May 1st 2023 launching a new Mini-Album of songs titled ‘THAT FEELING’
https://paulokane-songwriter.bandcamp.com/album/that-feeling-7-track-mini-album
NEWS: forthcoming book for Routledge titled ‘History in Contemporary Art & Culture’
NEWS: (YouTube) Paul O’Kane Speaking at the 2019 Berlin AICA International Congress.
NEWS: ‘Half Way To Cloud Mountain‘ short stories by Paul O’Kane, illustrated by Francesco Poiana
NEWS : Technologies of Romance Part II – book publication
