Paul Housleg's paintings present fragments from evergday life - objects, people, places. Housleg dredges the alluvium of the recent past to reclaim banal, second-hand imagery and reanimate dead metaphors. In Hous]ey's world, objects of traditional sentimental attachment such as cats and birds sit alongside rock icons like The Ramones and Iggy Pop. His paintings play with our notions of taste, finding novelty in cliche and lyricism in mundane, blank objects like sports bags and light bulbs. He remarks, "on one level, what you see is what you get."

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