Paul is a visual artist and filmmaker,whose work spans both the visual art and film worlds. His early short film Suspension was awarded a Golden Spire at the San Francisco Film Festival in 1999. In 2000, in collaboration with American artist David Phillips, he won the Glen Dimplex Artists’ award, which is the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s annual prize for contemporary art. Paul recently won the Irish American Arts Awards, in both the under 35 category and the overall prize.

His projects have received numerous awards from the Irish Arts Council since 1997, and he has made over 25 shorts films and video installations over the last ten years. His first feature film As Láthair, which examines colonial histories through re-working of the western genre, was completed in 2002.

Dividing his time between Dublin and New York, he works regularly as an editor with The Criterion Collection in New York, the foremost distributor of foreign and art-house cinema on DVD in the United States. Recently completed projects include a half hour documentary on Michelangelo Antonioni’s L'Eclisse, Tarkovsky's first feature Ivan's Childhood, and an hour long piece on Werner Herzog.

Paul has been artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, with Gillian Wearing, and a fellow at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire. A recent fellowship with the Bogliasco Foundation took him to Genoa last spring to work on a new series of videos. Recent gallery and museum exhibitions include Re:mote at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, Videonale at the Bonn Kunst Museum, Bambi at the ICA in Philadelphia, and Gravity Loop at the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny Castle. He is currently in production on a permanent public art installation for the international terminal at Los Angeles airport, to be opened in 2009.