Group Exhibition
3 November - 21 November
Ad Lib Gallery, 10 Church Road, Wimbledon Village, SW19 5DL
Private view / launch evening:
Thursday 4 November 6pm - 8:30pm - RSVP via email: info@adlib.online
Late viewing / drinks:
Saturday 13 November 6pm - 8:30pm - RSVP via email: info@adlib.online
Exhibition Opening Hours:
Monday 10:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 10:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 10:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday 10:30am - 5:30pm
Friday 10:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday 10:30am - 6pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm
Featuring original artworks and / or prints by:
Patrick Altes, Natasha Archdale, Nasser Azam, Caroline Banks, Helen Barnard, Jane Bristowe, Harry Bunce, Simon Chinnery, Bob Dylan, Martha Fein, Carne Griffiths, Kym Haverson, Haz, Jo Holdsworth, Janek Janikowski, Mandana Khonsari, Nathalie Kingdon, Ru Knox, Anne Levine, Tammy Mackay, Andrea Mongenie, Matt Mackman, Carl McCrow, Louise McNaught, Johnny Morant, Rachel Newton, Emma-Leone Palmer, Tamsin Pearson, Kimberly J Randall, Ernesto Romano, Sena Shah, Henrietta Stuart, Louisa Tebbutt, Nigel Turner, Max White, Iryna Yermolova, and more…
Rachel Newton and Caroline Banks in collaboration with Caiger Art
Patrick Altes
Patrick Altes is an artist of French/Spanish origins, whose work is deeply informed by his own personal history. Born into a working-class family in Algeria during French colonial rule, Altes’ awareness of inequality and repressive regimes grew early. As a young adult, he lived in South Africa for two years under the apartheid regime, working at the University of Fort Hare, a key institution in higher education for black Africans which counted among its alumnae a number of prominent opponents of the apartheid. This experience of a society based on discrimination, repression and deprivation of civil liberties for a large part of the population deeply marked Altes and fuelled his commitment to equality and human rights.
Since moving to the UK in 2006, Altes gained an MA in Fine Art from the University of Brighton in 2008. His work has made a distinctive contribution to post-colonial discourse and the emerging Franco-Algerian art movement. He is interested in the evolving relationship between the contemporary world and our deeper humanity. He was twice recipient of the prestigious Leverhulme Trust Award. He co-curated Algerianism 1, as part of the pan-Arabic Nour Festival in London’s Kensington and Chelsea (2015). He also participated in the 3rd Biennale of Mediterranean Contemporary Arts in Oran, Algeria (2014), Art Bahrain (2015), the 7th International Festival of Contemporary Arts (FIAC) at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts in Algiers (2015),) Art 16 London (2016, the 4th Biennale of Mediterranean Contemporary Art in Oran (2017) and London Art Fair, Islington (2020). Some of his work is held by the Museum of Modern Arts of Oran (MAMO), the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts of Algiers (MAMA) as wells as many international private collections.
Simon Chinnery
“I paint abstracts in mixed media including acrylic, plant powders and oils. My work is full of energy and movement with my inspiration coming from natural landscapes and the amazing worlds you can see if you look closely at things.
I have a fascination with natural images of light, colour, abstract shapes, and the cycle of growth, decay and seasons. I’ve been told that there is a bit of dream-like messiness in my work as I try to articulate feelings into organic energy.
I feel that my paintings say something about the joy of painting as an expressive act and for that very reason alone cause us to think not only about the darkness we carry with us, but also the colour, the brightness and the light, and how the contrast of these make us human.”
Ru Knox
Ru Knox is an English artist who has spent years as a professional classical portraitist, fulfilling private commissions and exhibiting both in the UK and abroad with much success in international competitions.
Ru combines this rigorous formal structure with his own original ideas, displaying his unique and personal style. His work has developed from pure traditional representation to a more contemporary approach, but retains references to his training.
He has a rare and potent emotional expression which has culminated from years of imaginative experimentation with various techniques and textures, but his legacy observational precision and handling still capture the psychology and immortalise the souls of his portraits.
Louisa Tebbutt
We will be showing new work by Louisa Tebbutt.
Louisa is a London based mixed media artist. Versatile and imaginative yet highly technical, she combines traditional art education with an emphasis on figurative studies. Most of her original artworks are on oxidized steel, and she has recently produced a series of watercolour portraits.
National and international level, including: London, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Chicago, Boston MA (Copley Society of Art) , New Jersey, Tel Aviv, Budapest and Vienna to name but a few. She has many works in private and corporate collections around the world. Louisa has been commissioned by many celebrity clients including musicians and Hollywood A-list.
Henrietta Stuart
My paintings have developed over the years from abstracts based on still life to compositions woven from images taken from the natural world. My inspiration as always is from places and images that I have seen. The compositions are worked up from extensive drawing, of the landscape. The finished pieces range from almost totally abstract compositions evoking a sense of place to more easily recognisable landscape images: the natural world modulated by time and season, disclosed by visual texture and colour.
Colour and light and drawing are very important to me. Colour is used to evoke emotion, and gives a sense of time and place; light is used to create space and to mask and hide objects, creating a sense of mystery. Drawing is giving me a greater idea of place and gives a greater structure to my paintings.
Tammy Mackay
“My work is a journey of feelings linked to an object, moment or past memory. Images are often conceptualised as a series, the most recent being my series called “HOPE and FEAR”. All are personal explorations of themes that are both layered in-process and layered in meaning. Animals and birds have become central to my current work and convey a subtle symbolism within their depiction.
I have a passion for printmaking which has always been my main form of expression. Etching and monoprint have generally been primary mediums, but I have always experimented with new techniques. More recently I have used photopolymer plates and drypoint. These techniques are often combined with hand-drawn or hand coloured chine collé. Exploring and developing new techniques opens up new possibilities which I feel are essential to my development as an artist and printmaker.”
For more info about Tammy Mackay and her available artworks click here
Many of the other exhibiting artists can be found on our Artists page
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