Projects

Albers Foundation 2015

Visiting Artist at The Albers Foundation, Connecticut USA, during April and May 2015 – a residency whose previous British recipients include Ian McKeever, Michael Porter, Rebecca Salter and Ian Davenport.

Selected work from the ‘Albers’ series by Luke Elwes is available to view at Broadbent Gallery, 4 Cromwell Place, London SW7 2JE

Festival artist Colchester 2014

Festival brochure 2014

The Roman River Music Festival (18 Sept – 5 Oct 2014), in collaboration with Cobbold & Judd Fine Art, will exhibit paintings by Luke Elwes at the Minories, Colchester.

An extended interview about the work for Est, the journal of new East Anglian writing, will be published by the Dunlin Press in January 2015

Artists talk at Colchester School of Art 20.9.2014

Vermont spring 2013

International residency grant to study at the Vermont Studio Center, the largest international artists’ and writers’ Residency Program in the United States.

Work from the US series is available to view through the Adam Gallery (UK)

Autumn 2012: Threadneedle Prize

‘Nimbus’ has been shortlisted for the Threadneedle Prize for Painting

Exhibited at the Mall Galleries, London SW1, from 26 September to 13 October 2012

Abstract Critical

Luke Elwes: Writer in residence at abstractcritical.com  2011onwards

Articles on contemporary drawing, art collecting and artists, including Robert Motherwell, Cecily Brown, Agnes Martin, Tess Jaray, Julie Mehretu, Phyllida Barlow and Tomma Abts.

Summer 2011:Royal Academy

Refuge has been included in the curated display by Tess Jaray RA

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (until 15 August 2011)

June 2011: Artists Eye

‘Artist Eye’ talk at The National Gallery, London:

Luke Elwes on Turner’s ‘Evening Star’ and his own work.  Friday 10 June, 6.30pm

May 2010: Critics Choice

Browse & Darby | London.

Curated by Andrew Lambirth:

Paintings by Craigie Aitchison, Luke Elwes, Roger Hilton, Ken Kiff, Alex Lowery, Euan Uglow & others.