Lot 337: Sold for £300 hammer
An Antiques & Collectables Auction to include Studio Pottery, Wednesday 13th November 2024

Luke Elwes (British, b.1961), 'Walk', 1993, large scale oil on canvas, signed, titled and dated verso, also bears label verso for Galerie Vielle du Temple, 23 Rue Vielle du Temple, Paris, 107cm by 198cm, stretchered but unframed.

Luke Elwes lives and works in London, his early years were spent in Tehran, where the light and terrain were a formative influence, he studied at UAL (Camberwell school of Art) and holds undergraduate and research degrees from Bristol University and University of London, in 1987 he went to the central Australian desert to study the landscape and its place in indigenous storytelling and artforms, and has spent extended periods of time travelling and working in India, Asia and North Africa. In 1998 he was artist in residence on an expedition to Mount Kailash in western Tibet, and returned to the Himalayas in 2008 to explore the remote kingdom of Mustang, in recent years he has gone on to make significant bodies of work during residencies in the USA, at the Vermont Studio Center (2013) and the Albers Foundation in Connecticut (2015). In 2022 he was visiting fellow at the Ballinglen Art Foundation (Ireland). his work has been shown regularly in private and public galleries in the UK, US and Europe, including: Frestonian Gallery (London), Adam Gallery (London), Broadbent (London), Art First Contemporary (London), Browse & Darby (London), Art First (New York), Galerie Vieille du Temple (Paris), Galerie Marceau Bastille (Paris), Grand Palais (Paris), Palazzo Lanfranchi (Pisa), Galleria Ceribelli (Milan & Bergamo), Galleria Ghelfi (Vicenza). In 2022 he showed alongside Bridget Riley at the Myung-Won Museum in Seoul, South Korea.