Luke Elwes - Adam Gallery

LUKE ELWES
ADAM GALLERY
24 Cork Street, London W1S 3NJ
13 John Street Bath, BA1 2JL
1961
Born in London
1963-68
Lived in Tehran
1980-85
Bristol University, Camberwell School of Art
1988-89
Travels in Australian desert & North West India
1991
Artist member on ‘Lord of the Isles' expedition, Hebridean Islands
1992-93
Desert travels: East Africa & South West America
1996
Bayer Earth Art Prize
1997
Artist member on expedition to Mount Kailash, Tibet
2000
Study trip to Asia Minor, walking through Cappadocia
2000-06
Lives part of the year on Osea Island, off the Essex coast
2004
Painting trip to Atlas Mountains and Djebel Sarhro.
2005
‘Cultural Excavations', Oman (supported by British Council)
2006-08
Postgraduate research in Art History, University of London (Birkbeck)
2008
Expedition to Kingdom of Mustang in the Himalayas
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011
'Silent Kingdom', Adam Gallery, London & Bath
2010
'Another Country', The Estorick Collection, London
2009
'Luke Elwes: Peintures Récentes', Galerie Marceau Bastille, Paris
'Secret Water', works on paper, Broadbent, London
'L'Isle Joyeuse', Falle Fine Art, St.Helier, Jersey
'Five London Painters', Artco Leeds
2008
'Genius Loci', Galleria Ceribelli, Bergamo, Italy
2007
'Refugia', Art First, Cork Street, London
'Mapping', Bury Art Gallery, Manchester
'Gli Amici Pittori Di Londra', Galleria Ceribelli, Bergamo & Galleria Ghelfi, Vicenza, Italy
2006
Celeste Art prize, London
2005
Flowing Ground , works on paper, Broadbent, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2004
'Compass', Art First, Cork Street, London
'Slow Art', Broadbent Gallery, London
2003
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2002
'The Osea Paintings', Art First, Cork Street, London
Luke Elwes, Art First, New York
2000
'Five British Artists', Galerie Vieille du Temple, Paris
'Sanctuary', Art First, Cork Street, London
1999
The Hunting Group Art Prizes, London & Bath.
1998
'Pilgrim', Art First, Cork Street, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1997
14th Annual Open, Royal Overseas League, London & Edinburgh
1996
'Endangered Spaces', Council for the Protection of Rural England
Bayer Earth Art Prize, Highly Commended
1995
'Centenary', Contemporary British Art, Christie's, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (as invited artist)
1993
Luke Elwes, Galerie Vieille du Temple, Paris
1992
'Spring', Barbican, London (chosen by The Spectator)
1991
'Il Sud Del Mondo', L'Altra Arte Contemporanea, Marsala, Sicily, & Milan, Italy
'Earthscape', Hastings & Southampton City Art Gallery
'Songlines', Barbican, London.
1990
'The Broad Horizon', Agnew's, London
1990/91/93/95 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1987/88
Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais, Paris
COLLECTIONS
Paintings in Hospitals
Christies Contemporary Art Collection
National Trust Foundation for Art
Coopers & Lybrand
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
Merrill Lynch Collection
N M Rothschild
Deutsche Hypo Bank London
Hoares Bank Collection
Electra Investment Trust Collection
The Orneberg Collection, Sweden
Europa Minerals Collection, London
Imperial College, London University
Bayer Collection
White Collins Rutherford Scott (WRCS)
The Hatton Collection
Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Worth Abbey
Fired Earth Collection
Tufton Oceanic Ltd