Luke Elwes
Refugia Installation shot, Art First London 2007
Solo Exhibitions
1990 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1991 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1993 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1993 Galerie Vieille du Temple, Paris
1995 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1998 Art First, Cork Street, London
2000 Art First, Cork Street, London
2001 Galerie Vieille du Temple, Paris
2002 Art First, Cork Street, London
2002 Art First New York
2004 Art First, Cork Street, London
2005 Broadbent, London
2007 Art First, Cork Street, London
2009 Galerie Marceau-Bastille, Paris
2009 Broadbent, London
Selected group Shows
1987 38eme Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais, Paris.
1988 39eme Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais, Paris.
Contemporary Art Society, London.
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh.
1990 The Broad Horizon, Agnews, London
1991 Il Sud Del Mondo, L’Altra Arte Contemporanea,
Marsala, Sicily, and Milan, Italy.
Fresh Horizons, William Jackson Gallery, London.
Earthscape, Hastings & Southampton City Art Gallery.
Songlines, Barbican , London.
1992 Galerie Vieille du Temple, Paris.
Spring, Barbican, London (chosen by The Spectator)
1993 Reflections, Edinburgh & London (chosen by The Spectator)
1994 Celebration, New British Art, Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London.
1995 Centenary, Contemporary British Art & the National Trust,
Christie’s, London.
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (as invited artist)
1996 Endangered Spaces, Council for the Protection of Rural England,
Christies, London.
Bayer Earth Art Prize, Highly Commended.
1997 14th Annual Open, Royal Overseas League, London & Edinburgh
1998 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1999 The Hunting Group Art Prizes, London and Bath.
2000 Galerie Vieille du Temple, Paris
Art Paris, Carrousel de Louvre
Starting A Collection, Art First, London
2001 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Art First, London
Starting A Collection, Art First, London
2002 Water’s edge, Art First, London
(Luke Elwes, Anthony Whishaw, Lino Mannocci)
Starting A Collection, Art First, London
2003 RA summer exhibition
Look, Stranger! Art First, London
(Luke Elwes, Alex Lowery, Bridget MacDonald)
2004 Slow Art, Broadbent Gallery, London
2005 RA summer exhibition
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibit
2006 Translations, work from the National Gallery, Art First, London
2006 Celeste Art Prize, London2007
Mapping, Bury Art Gallery, Lancashire
2007 Gli Amici Pittori Di Londra, Galleria Ceribelli, Bergamo, Italy.
Gli Amici Pittori Di Londra, Galleria Ghelfi, Vicenza, Italy.
2008 Genius Loci, Galleria Ceribelli, Bergamo, Italy
2009 L'Isle Joyeuse, Falle Fine Art, Jersey, & Art First, London
2009 5 London Painters, Artco Gallery, Leeds
Forthcoming shows
2010 Another Country: British Artists in dialogue with Modern Italian Art
The Estorick Collection, London
Selected Bibliography & Broadcasts
Luke Elwes, Max Wykes Joyce, Arts Review, October 1987
The Art of Travel, Rebecca Willis,Vogue, August 1989
Giles Auty, The Spectator, 14 April 1990
William Packer, The Financial Times, 8 May 1990
Luke Elwes, Emma Burn, Arts Review, 18 May 1990
Luke Elwes, Sue Hubbard, Time Out, 2 May 1990
Giles Auty, The Spectator, 20 April 1991
Luke Elwes, Jane Norrie, Arts Review, 18 October 1991
Vox Pop, Natalie Wheen, Modern Painters, Winter 1992
Natalie Wheen, Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio Four, Dec 1992
Giles Auty, The Spectator, 24 April 1993
Nick Tite, RA Magazine, Spring 1993
Joining the dots on the landscape, Dalya Alberge,The Independent, 20 July 1993
Luke Elwes,Beaux Arts Magazine, Paris, July 1993
Iain Gale, The Independent, 2 June 1995
Luke Elwes, Iain Gale, The Week (Review of reviews), 3 June 1995
Luke Elwes, Ian McKay, What’s On (Art in London), 21 June 1995
Artists & the Sea, BBC Radio Four interview, 28 August 1996
Endangered Spaces, Iain Gale, The Independent, 6 September 1996
Something Understood, interview with Mark Tully, BBC Radio Four, 22.5.1997
Look before you think, Luke Elwes, Modern Painters, Winter 1997
Luke Elwes, Nicholas Usherwood, Galleries Magazine, March 1998
Along the Waterline, Andrew Lambirth, exhibition essay, May 2002
Look stranger, conversation with the artist, exhibition catalogue, 2003
Luke Elwes at Art First, Sue Hubbard, The Independent, 21 September 2004
Resurrection, Raynes Minns, Art & Christianity Enquiry, No 43, july 2005
Resurrection, Luke Elwes, Crysalis Arts (NZ), Jan 2006
Luke Elwes, Nicholas Usherwood, Galleries, September 2007
L'Isle Joyeuse, Nicholas Usherwood, Galleries, September 2009
Famous Five, Sheena Hastings, Yorkshire Post, 9 October 2009
Catalogues/Publications
Bungle Bungle, text by Colin Gleadell, exhibition catalogue, RHG March 1990
Landcross, text by Sister Wendy Beckett, exhibition catalogue, RHG August 1991
Storyline, exhibition catalogue, with text by the artist, RHG 1993
Island, exhibition catalogue, with text by the artist, RHG 1995
Luke Elwes: Pilgrim, text by Andrew Lambirth, exhibition catalogue 1998
Sanctuary, text by Nicholas Usherwood, exhibition catalogue, March 2000
The Osea Paintings, exhibition catalogue, with text by the artist, 2002
Compass, with text by Andrew Lambirth, Nicholas Usherwood and the artist, 2004
Flowing Ground (work on paper), exhibition catalogue, with text by the artist, 2005
Refugia, text by Anthony Fawcett and the artist, exhibition catalogue, 2007
Secret Water (work on paper), exhibition catalogue, with text by the artist, 2009
Crossing, Reclaiming the Landscape of our lives, Mark Barrett
(Darton Longman & Todd, 2001, reprinted 2007)
Gli Amici Pittori Di Londra, Lino Mannocci (Galleria Ceribelli, Lubrina Editore, 2007)
Genius Loci, Luke Elwes (Galleria Ceribelli, Lubrina Editore, 2008)
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