CAli*MA Art Gallery • Abdullah Ali Butler (Egypt)
Abdullah Ali Butler came to Egypt for the first time in April 1985 and immediately fell in love with Luxor. He became a keen amateur Egyptologist and developed an interest in art. Since 2016, he has lived in Cairo. For Abdullah painting is a commitment. It's not just something one does periodically but a daily discipline. He says:
"Art is the elevation of humanity above the mundane. Living life itself can be - should be - an art, and Art itself should touch the divinity not only in man but in all things, enshrining a momentary search for the unity of the singularity of its discernment."
Artist Abdullah Ali Butler – Artworks
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The Overthrowing |
Sun Hat |
Visitors |
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Expectations |
The Journey |
Mother |
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Sunrise in Amenta |
Ma'at |
The Crown |
Go to Shop |
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The Night Time Stele |
Amenta |
The Enthralled Sphynx |
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Mother and Daughter |
Time Waits Not |
The Family |
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The Hidden One |
The Ma'ati Goddesses |
Khnum and the Tide |
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Artemis |
It's Past |
Veils |
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Interaction |
The Aztec Shaman |
Beginnings |
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The Shining |
Winged Scarab |
Intimidations of |
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The Globe |
Reciting |
Blue |
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The Blind Geisha |
Wings |
The Role of the Dragon |
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The Enemies of Egypt |
The Harp |
The Sphinx Stelae |
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Moments |
Aztec Maiden |
Contemplation |
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The Vigilant Harlequin |
The Pensive Dancer |
The Bridge |
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Establishing of Ma'at |
Benu Bird |
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"When we create we are the closest we can be to understanding creation and yet it’s a poor understanding at best, when we reach out to the infinite, the infinite reaches towards Man, it is through us that God perceives its own existence.
Though beauty itself is a worthy aspiration art should be more than mere decoration. Art is the elevation of humanity above the mundane. Living life itself can be - should be - an art, and Art itself should touch the divinity not only in man but in all things, enshrining a momentary search for the unity of the singularity of its discernment." Abdullah Ali Butler
Education and Work Experience:
- 1987-1989 BTech Art & Design Diploma, Hastings College of Arts and
Technology England - 1990-1994 HN Fine Art Diploma, Hastings College of Arts and Technology
England - 1995-1997 Luxor Egypt: Research on ancient Egyptian painting materials and
techniques and reconstruction and preservation of antiquities - 1997-1998 Luxor, Egypt: Desert Dream Developments
Designing and constructing private housing and holiday villas
Designing and restoring mud-brick houses - 1998-2001 Akhenaten City Palace, Luxor/Cairo: Design work for the decoration for the reconstruction of the city of Tell el Amarna as a tourist development
- 2001-2003 American City College Cairo: Wrote and implemented their art
curriculum for all grades - 2003-2005 El Yamama Center of Prince Mohammed Bander Abd el Aziz, Cairo: Designed and implemented the decorative work
- 2005-2007 Cairo: Various decorative projects for buildings and offices including Peach Investments and Ayun Tourist Developments
Group Exhibitions:
- 1994-1995 Riviera Gallery (two thematic group exhibitions), Hastings,
East Sussex - 2011 El Sawy Culture Wheel Center, Jerusalem Group exhibition, January, Cairo
- 2012 El Sawy Culture Wheel Center, Spring collective, May, Cairo
- 2013 El Sawy Culture Wheel Center, April, Cairo
- 2016 El Sawy Culture Wheel Center, Spring collective, May, Cairo
- 2016 UNESCO Art in Education, Alexandria Atelier, guest speaker and exhibitor May, Alexandria
- 2017 The Matter of Time, El Sawy Culture Wheel Center, November, Cairo
- 2018 Ostraca Gallery Collective, January, Hurghada
- 2019 International Art Symposium, Hurghada
- 2020 2nd Egypt International Art Salon, Hurghada
- 2020 The Continent, exhibition of the Luxor African Film Festival, Luxor
- 2020 Summer Collection 2020, Nūn Art Gallery Luxor
- 2020 Aldau International Art Festival II, Ostraca Gallery, Hurgada
- 2021 3rd Egypt International Art Salon, Cairo
- 2021 The Dialogue, double exhibition with Khaled Al Tahmazi, Ostraca Art Gallery, Hurghada
- 2021 Couples, Group Exhibition, Nūn Art Gallery, Luxor
- 2021 Summer Collection 2021, Nūn Art Gallery Luxor
- 2021 WTD (World Tourism Day) Art Carnival, Hurghada
- 2021 Aldau International Art Festival III, Ostraca Gallery, Hurgada
- 2022 World Forum Arts - Tourism (WFAT), Hurghada
- 2022 Aldau International Art Festival IV, Ostraca Gallery, Hurgada
- 2022 International Surrealist Art Exhibition, Hurghada
- 2022 Exhibition of the Luxor African Film Festival, Luxor
- 2022 Aldau International Art Festival, Hurgada
- 2022 Retrospective 2022, Nūn Art Gallery Luxor
Solo/Double Exhibitions:
- 1994-1995 Shark Gallery, Old Town Hastings, East Sussex, England
- 2010 Cafe Kunst Gallery, 1st – 7th February, Cairo
- 2010 Clay Café/Gallery, 16th – 26th February, Alexandria
- 2010 Centre Rézodanse Egypte, 20th-30th May, Alexandria
- 2011 Cairo Atelier, 2nd -17th April, Cairo
- 2015 Wadjet Point, March, Alexandria
- 2015 Trans4mations, Alexandria Atelier, November, Alexandria
- 2017 Changes, Ostraca Gallery, 10-30th January, Hurghada
- 2021 International Art Symposium with double exhibition, Hurghada
- 2021 In the Picture, double exhibition with Mahmoud Mokhtar, Nūn Art Gallery Luxor
- 2023 Solo Exhibition, Mahmoud Mokhtar Museum, Cairo
- 2023 Metamorphosis, Atelier du Caire, Cairo
"It's just about moving paint in a direction, every direction and it becomes something else. The transformation, marks and lines converge, add up, are subtracted and something appears, something different from either the cloth of the canvas or the medium of the colours, that's the true magic of Art. A leaping lion, which in reality is just an intertwining of white and black." - Abdullah Ali Butler
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