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