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ACE is a mystery. All I can tell you right now is that he's a guerrilla printmaker and that his logo is an anthropomorphist boxer. |
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Adam King explores landscape and the pastoral through two and three dimensional collages. His work reveals post-apocalyptic terrains pieced together from the collected imagery of an urban consumer culture. These landscapes and their inhabitants are a disturbing reflection on our fixation with all things fashionable.
He is based in London and studied at the Wimbledon School of Art.
Award:
Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Open Exhibition Prize 2002; Pizza Express Prospects short-listed prize winner 2002; Surface Gallery Print Open Exhibition Winner 2004. |
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Solo Exhibitions
2006
“Men and savages”. Artifitial Gallery. Madrid.
2004
“Fountain”. Space F Gallery . Madrid.
2001
“Diary”. Centro de Arte de la Comunidad de Madrid.
1999
“Diary”. Taller estudio Alfiz. Madrid. |
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He is based in London and studied at Slade School of Art and Reading University. Selected exhibitions include: 2006: John Moores 24, Liverpool. 2005 Under-Lie, Keith Talent Gallery, London. 2001: Solo Show, Mobile Home Gallery, London. 2000: Solo Show, Percy Miller Gallery London. 1999: John Moores 21, Liverpool; East International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich; 1998: Jerwood Painting Prize, Jerwood Space London; Solo Show, Marlene Eleini Gallery, London. In 1999 he was Prizewinner at John Moores 21. |
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"One of the most important motif in my work is contrast nature and technical civilization. There are my own contemporary person experiences from everyday live existence.
There are grotesque and certain tension in my paintings. Important pictures series is for me the "Metro" cycle. I placed there scenes from nature- fishing, chase, hunt, in to the decorative application of the underground's walls..I wanted symbolic transfer a little bit nature in to the Prague underground stations.
Conflict between natural and technical world is in the animals portraits too. |
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A sensation of searching for something yet unknown that may provide enlightenment runs through the work. The flux of multi layered references flips us from anxiety to ecstasy to melancholy to horror. A hypnotic aesthetic binds it all together; in keeping with modern societies increasingly voracious appetite for quick fix fulfillment. Inevitably we end up narcotized, adrift in the void. However, there is also a sense that through total apocalyptic destruction there is the possibility for re-newel , for creation , metamorphosis. |
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Alex has been a freelance photographer since 2004 after he graduated in physics. Since then he has built up a large portfolio of London and is currently building up photographs of other cities across Europe. His work has been exhibited several times in London including the Barbican Library in September 2006. Although he lives in Portugal, he is regularly back in the UK when he is able to pursue commissions and orders for his works. |
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MA Fine Art Wimbledon College of Art 2006-2007.
Forthcoming exhibitions: September 2008, The Invention of Solitude (2), Leicester City Gallery, with Rebecca Birch, Rob Smith, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Curated by Charles Danby.
Selected Group Exhibitions, 2007, Cafe Gallery Projects, Annual Open, London, Postgraduate Exhibition, Wimbledon College of Art, London, Start Your Collection! Contemporary Art Projects, London,
Currents, Postgraduate Interim Exhib |
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1991-2 Wrexham Art College, Wales 1992-5 Goldsmiths College, London 2004
“The Proper Study of Mankind”, MoMAWales, Machynlleth, Wales. 2004 “Alexander Adams: Work on Paper” touring show, Rhyl Arts Centre Gallery, Rhyl, Wales; Smith Art Gallery, Brighouse, nr Halifax; School of Art Museum Art Gallery, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales; Kings Lynn Arts Centre, King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
Since 1994 he has exclusively worked in black and white. Speaking about the monochrome nature of his work, he said: "Working in black and white breaks the link with naturalism and allows the painter to operate without instinctively judging how 'real' an image is. |
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The paintings are nostalgic towards a lost age of youthful innocence and dreams. My work is like a zeitgeist of a close relative one never new or a lost love, perhaps this person was dead long before one was ever born. The work therefore holds a fondness to places that these past lives were lived out in, so close to ones self, yet so far away. They lament on a kind of love and longing to meet ones fore fathers and express a shared inherited passion towards alpine rock and pine trees. |
