Luke Elwes b. 1961, London, UK
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
1980 Camberwell School of Art, London, UK
1982-85 Bristol University, Bristol, UK
2007 London University, London, UK
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Constellations | Frestonian Gallery, London, UK
2023 Vision and the Visionary (Part II) | Frestonian Gallery, London, UK
2021 Landermere | Frestonian Gallery, London, UK
2019 Passage | Frestonian Gallery, London, UK
2017 Floating world | Adam Gallery, London & Bath, UK
2016 Floating world | National Trust, Flatford, Suffolk, UK
2015 Albers Foundation | Broadbent Gallery, London, UK
2015 Reflection | Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire, UK
2014 Water Diaries | The Minories, Colchester, Essex, UK
2014 Writing on water | Adam Gallery, London & Bath, UK
2013 Luke Elwes: 10 Year survey | Young Gallery, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK
2012 Constellation | Adam Gallery, London & Bath, UK
2012 Celestial Confetti | North House Gallery, Essex, UK
2011 Silent Kingdom | Adam Gallery, London & Bath, UK
2009 Secret Water | Broadbent Gallery, London, UK
2009 Peintures Recente | Galerie Marceau Bastille, Paris, FR
2007 Refugia | Art First Contemporary, London, UK
2007 Amici Pittori | Galleria Ceribelli, Bergamo, Italy
2005 Flowing Ground | Broadbent Gallery, London, UK
2004 Compass | Art First Contemporary, London, UK
2002 Luke Elwes | Art First Contemporary, New York, USA
2002 The Osea series | Art First Contemporary, London, UK
2000 Sanctuary | Art First Contemporary, London, UK
1998 Pilgrim | Art First Contemporary, London, UK
1995 Island | Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
1993 Storyline | Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
1993 Luke Elwes | Galerie Vieille du Temple, Paris, FR
1991 Landcross | Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
1990 Bungle Bungle | Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 The Green Fuse (including Adrian Berg, Tim Braden & Bridget Riley) | Frestonian
Gallery, London, UK
2020 Natural Beauty | North House Gallery, Essex, UK
2019 Landscape of Memory | Galleria Ceribelli, Bergamo, IT
2019 SAID Business School | Oxford University, Oxfordshire, UK
2018 Currents | Sladers Yard Gallery, Dorset, UK
2017 Amici Pittori Di Londra | Galleria Ceribelli, Bergamo, IT
2016 (with Emma Stibborn, Alex Lowery, Daisy Cook) | Sladers Yard Gallery, Dorset,
UK
2016 Segni di Londra | Museo della Grafica, Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pisa, IT
2015 Segni di Londra | Fondazione Bottari Lattes, Monforte d’Alba, Cuneo, IT
2015 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (curated by Tess Jaray), London, UK
2015 Vital signs: 12 London Artists (with Bevan, Lebrun, Hyman, Jackowski, James,
Johnson, Lowry, Mannocci, Newbolt, Di Stefano, Verity) | Clifford Chance,
London, UK & Galleria Ceribelli, Bergamo, IT
2014 Radiance | Sladers Yard Gallery, Dorset, UK
2012 Cross Country (with Andrew Vass & Kate Palmer) | Broadbent Gallery, London, UK
2012 Threadneedle Prize for Painting | Mall Galleries, London, UK
2011 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition | London, UK
2010 Another Country (with Bevan, Di Stefano, Hyman, Jackowski, James, Johnson,
Lowery, Mannocci, Newbolt) | Estorick Collection, London, UK
2010 Critics Choice (selected by Andrew Lambirth) | Browse & Darby, London, UK
2009 L'Isle Joyeuse (with Alex Lowery & Bridget Macdonald) | Art First & Falle Fine Art,
Jersey, UK
2009 (with Maurice Cockrill, Stephen Chambers, Lino Mannocci & Christopher Wood) | Hester Gallery, Leeds, UK
2008 Genius Loci (with Arturo Di Stefano, Glenys Johnson, Alex Lowery & Lino
Mannocci) | Galleria Ceribelli, Bergamo, IT
2007 Mapping (survey show including work by Layla Curtis, Hamish Fulton, Langlands
& Bell, Richard Long, Cornelia Parker & Simon Patterson) | Bury Art Gallery,
Manchester, UK
2007 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition | London, UK
2007 Amici Pittori di Londra | Galleria Ghelfi, Vicenza, IT
2006 Translations | National Gallery & Art First, London, UK
2005 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition | London, UK
2004 Elements | Art First, London & Edinburgh, UK
2004 Slow Art | Broadbent Gallery, London, UK
2003 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition | London, UK
2003 Look Stranger (with Bridget Macdonald & Alex Lowery) | Art First Contemporary,
London, UK
2002 Waters Edge (with Anthony Whishaw & Lino Mannocci) | Art First Contemporary,
London, UK
2000 Five British Artists | Galerie Vieille du Temple & Carrousel de Louvre, Paris, FR
1999 Hunting Group Art Prize | London & Bath, UK
1998 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition | London, UK
1997 ROSL 14th Open | London & Edinburgh, UK
1996 Endangered Spaces (curated by Nicholas Usherwood) | Christies, London, UK
1996 Bayer Earth Art Prize (Highly commended) | London, UK
1995 Centenary: National Trust (curated by Nicholas Usherwood) | Christies, London,UK
1995 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (invited artist) | London, UK
1994 New British Art (including Martin Constable, Dennis de Caires, Stephen Farthing)
| Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London, UK
1994 Sanctuary (with Mali Morris, Shirazeh Houshiary & Maggi Hambling) | Chelsea &
Westminster Hospital, London, UK
1993 The Spectator Prize | London & Edinburgh, UK
1992 London Painters | Galerie Vieille du Temple | Paris, FR
1992 Spring | Barbican Gallery, London, UK
1991 Il Sud del Mondo | Marsala, Sicily & Milan, IT
1991 Fresh Horizons | William Jackson Gallery, London, UK
1991 Earthscape | Hastings & Southampton City Art Gallery, Kent & Southampton, UK
1991 Songlines | Barbican Concourse Gallery, London, UK
1990 The Broad Horizon | Agnews Gallery, London, UK
1988 Salon de la Jeune Peinture | Grand Palais, Paris, FR
1988 Contemporary Art Society | Smiths Gallery, London, UK
1988 Young British Artists | Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
1987 Salon de la Jeune Peinture | Grand Palais | Paris, FR
1984 The Spirit of London | Royal Festival Hall, London, UK