artists / curators / writers

	name	short description
	Alexander Adams	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.

Alexander Adams - Ruins and Landscapes / Ruinen und Landschaften

Alexander Adams works in black and white by traditional means, using pencil and paint, lino cut, etching and engraving. he also writes. This introduction to his work draws heavily upon his writings, though Adams would be the first to acknowledge that any verbal statement about art is a translation from an intuitivem mysterious activity which, finally, is untranslatable.