Artist statement
Luke Elwes (b.1961, London) studied at Camberwell Art School (1983 - 85) and recently completed his postgraduate research at Birkbeck, London University. Elwes also a writes about contemporary painters for journals including Modern Painters, Royal Academy Magazine and Galleries magazine, and has helped organise exhibitions in public collections, including Kettles Yard and the Estorick Collection.
Recent solo shows include Art First, London and New York, Broadbent Gallery, London and Galerie Vieille du Temple, Paris. Group exhibitions include 'Mapping' at Bury Art Gallery, Manchester,2007 and 'Gli Amici Pittori di Londra', Galleria Ceribelli, Bergamo, Italy, 2007. In 2010 he participated in the survey show 'Another Country' at the Estorick Collection, London. Adam Gallery, London, will show his new work in 2011.
Solo exhibitions
- 2011 Silent Kingdom, Adam Gallery, London
- 2009 Secret Water, Broadbent, London
- 2009 Secret Water, Broadbent, London (more info)
- 2009 Luke Elwes, Peintures recentes, Galerie Marceau Bastille, Paris (more info)
- 2007 Refugia, Art First, London
- 2005 Flowing Ground, Broadbent, London
- 2004 Compass, Art First, London, New York
- 2002 Osea Paintings, Art First, London, New York
- 2000 Sanctuary, Art First and Galerie Vieille Du Temple, London and Paris
- 1998 Pilgrim, Art First, London
- 1993 Paintings, Gallerie Vielle Du Temple, Paris
Group exhibitions
- 2010 Another Country, Estorick Collection, London (more info)
- 2010 Another Country, Estorick Collection, London
- 2008 Genius Loci, Galleria Ceribelli, Bergamo, Italy (more info)
- 2007 Mapping, Bury Art Gallery, Manchester
- 2007 Gli Amici Pittori di Londra, Galleria Ceribelli, Bergamo, Italy
- 2006 Translations, Art First, London
Public commissions
- 2004 Resurrection, Chapel of Christ the King, Sandhurst, Surrey
- 1999 Wall mural, Performing Arts Centre, Worth Abbey, Sussex
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