Ali Hammoud

Adopting a fluid approach that remains unbounded by style or form, Ali Hammoud’s works are a frequent reflection of the multifaceted artistic tuition he acquired in his formative years. Introduced to art at a young age by local enthusiasts in his neighbourhood in Beirut, he joined an academy of fine arts at 17 years of age, learning an assembly of artistic disciplines and technical competencies. At the commencement of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975, he relocated to the UK and studied at the Dunstable College of Art, spending four additional years training simultaneously in graphic design, advertising and visual art.
Striving to create works that are equally as enduring, as they are deeply symbolic and highly introspective, Ali’s renderings are typically a direct consequence of his external conditions, changes to his primary perceptions and phases of his inner landscape. Influenced by his own early mark making on the canvas, these formations habitually lead to abstract configurations, that regularly integrate contemporary, figurative and surreal qualities. Less perturbed by the typical characteristics associated with aesthetic beauty, his creative works are primarily concerned with raising relevant questions and seeking the most ca...

BA in Advertising & Graphic Design 1980,
Dunstable College of Art,
UK.

Solo Exhibitions:

Abstract Gallery, Riyadh 2014
Fal Compound, Art Exhibition, Riyadh, 2002/08
International Art Center, Kuwait 1984
Rochane Gallery, Kuwait 1983
Rochane Gallery, Kuwait 1983

Group Exhibitions:

Wimbledon art studios, London 2016
International Art Exhibition, Sharjah 1992
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 1991
Luton Museum, Luton Beds 1990
The Walter Rothschild Museum, Tring Bucks 1989
The Arndale Centre, Luton Beds 1988
The Howard Centre, Bedford 1987
Royal Academy Summer show, London 1986
Abdullah Al Salem Hall, Kuwait 1985
International Art Festival, Kuwait.1981,
Dunstable College of Art from 1978/1980.
Downtown Beirut, Lebanon 1971/75