ELIOT ALLSOP

Eliot Allsop (1968), born in London, United Kingdom, currently lives and works in Amsterdam. Eliot graduated from the Chelsea College of Art in London (1991). Allsop started in the early years of his career with more commercial work, with which he has had international success. It was only a few years ago that Eliot started his current career as contemporary artist. Since 2018 he has been exhibiting in galleries, museums and at art fairs. Among these occasions are exhibitions at Marres (Maastricht), Museum Verwey (Haarlem), Museum Het Nieuwe Domein (Sittard) and Art The Hague. Allsop’s work is included in various private collections.

Eliot Allsop’s drawings are about the ability that people have to self-deception. The world around us is not always what it appears to be. The line between civilization and destruction is thin. With a sense of nostalgia, Allsop shows us a glimpse of the future. A future in which he looks back to the now. Eliot Allsop is fascinated by our infinite capacity to destroy ourselves with the world that we create.

The cold, the remote and the alien. The night side of thought. Isolated times in which thinking enigmatically confronts the event horizon of its own possibilities. Gesturing towards the limits of perception and knowability, where for every attempt at communication there is a correlative excommunication. Only the spaces between in some sense approachable and only then in the most vague and shadowy form. The familiar becoming a stranger to us, speaking of all that we do not and cannot know. From these futile attempts at comprehension, we await to be created anew by the shear force of imagination. To see again with reborn eyes – Text by Eliot Allsop

Exhibitions at Galerie Nasty Alice: Unicolor 2023 . Art The Hague 2023 . KunstRAI 2023 . Art The Hague 2022 .  Appèl Galeries 2022 . Fair Share Art Fair 2022 . KunstRAI 2022 . Disturbed 2022 . KunstRAI 2021 . Appèl Galeries 2020 . Play 2020 . Appèl Galeries 2019 . Boys 2019 . KunstRAI 2019 . Hitchcock 2018 .