Rufus Knight-Webb

“My fast action paintings involve choreography of rhythm and gesture. The speed at which I paint has a significant influence on the character of the resulting work. The fleeting brush strokes symbolize both the sea, and the sparse electronic music I listen to when working. The subjects of my paintings have less importance than the paint itself. It is an intimate relationship with paint which defines my work.”

Rufus Knight-Webb lives and works in South London and represents the true avant-garde of abstract painting with his highly evolved, dramatic, gestural and rhythmic paintings that are the product of two decades of sustained invention, culminating in a new form that has been described as Techno Expressionism. He has worked with leading figures in contemporary art, including Michael Craig-Martin and Alan Davie, who continue to have a profound influence on his development as a painter.

By the late 1980’s Knight-Webb had lost faith in the prevailing UK art scene, and was seeking a new impetus for painting. The dawn of the Acid House scene and the advent of electronic music presented new possibilities to Knight-Webb, inspiring him to originate a totally contemporary form of Techno Expressionist painting with fluorescent pai...

BA hons Fine Art from Winchester School of Art 1986

2014 OFF Art Fair Brussels, April
2013 Ultra-violet Wilderness, Neustadt Festival Germany
O3 Gallery Oxford, “Nonsense” group exhibition
2012 Opened Knight Webb Gallery as showcase
New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, with Mark Jason Gallery
2011 Sladers Yard, Dorset
2010 Art Chicago / USA
Kinnaird House Pall Mall
2009 Suite Mannheim Germany
Mark Jason Gallery
2007 Chelsea Arts Club
Sladers Yard, Dorset
2006 Chelsea gallery, palo Alto, San Francisco, USA
AAF New York / Mark Jason Gallery
Mark Jason Gallery, Bell St, London
Art London / Mark Jason Gallery
2005 Art Gallery of Windsor; Ontario Canada / Movement
Art Event Antwerp
Jason Fine Arts, Bond St, London / group exhibition
Bancroft Fine Art, Knightsbridge London / Group exhibition
2004 Orr and Rosenfalch London EC2 / Group show
Bancroft Fine Art investments / Alternative Investment Fair London
John Davies Gallery, Gloucestershire / Summer Group Show
Artoose  Hampstead / On The Wall London
i-tre gallery Pimlico, London SW1 / OM
The Suite, Mannheim GDR / Psychadelic performance in fluorescent u-v light
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