CAli*MA Art Gallery • Abdullah Ali Butler (Egypt)

Abdullah Ali ButlerAbdullah 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
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
30,000 EGP

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Sun Hat
Acrylic on Canvas
135 x 90 cm
15,600 EGP

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Visitors
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 150 cm
24,000 EGP

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Expectations
Acrylic on Canvas
70 x 130 cm
16,800 EGP

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The Journey
Acrylic on Canvas
70 x 100 cm
13,200 EGP

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Mother
Acrylic on Canvas
65 x 121 cm
16,800 EGP

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Sunrise in Amenta
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 100 cm
19,200 EGP

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Ma'at
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
28,800 EGP

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The Crown
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
30,000 EGP

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The Night Time Stele
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
22,800 EGP

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Amenta
Acrylic on Canvas
5 Canvasses, 50 x 200 cm
each - 64,800 EGP all

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The Enthralled Sphynx
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
30,000 EGP

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Mother and Daughter
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 150 cm
19,200 EGP

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Time Waits Not
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 165 cm
28,800 EGP

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The Family
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 150 cm
28,800 EGP

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The Hidden One
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
18,000 EGP

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The Ma'ati Goddesses
Acrylic on Canvas
135 x 160 cm
36,000 EGP

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Khnum and the Tide
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 160 cm
36,000 EGP

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Artemis
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
21,600 EGP

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It's Past
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
21,600 EGP

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Veils
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
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Interaction
Acrylic on Canvas
150 x 135 cm
33,600 EPG

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The Aztec Shaman
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 150 cm
28,800 EGP

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Beginnings
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 150 cm
28,800 EGP

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The Shining
Acrylic on Canvas
60 x 80 cm
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Winged Scarab
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
18,000 EPG

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Intimidations of
Mortality

Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm, 18,000 EGP

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The Globe
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
18,000 EPG

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Reciting
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
18,000 EPG

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Blue
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
18,000 EPG

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The Blind Geisha
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 150 cm
19,200 EGP

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Wings
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 150 cm
19,200 EGP

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The Role of the Dragon
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
18,000 EPG

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The Enemies of Egypt
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 150 cm
19,200 EGP

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The Harp
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
18,000 EGP

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The Sphinx Stelae
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 150 cm
19,200 EGP

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Moments
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
18,000 EGP

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Aztec Maiden
Acrylic on Canvas
60 x 80 cm
8,700 EGP

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Contemplation
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 150 cm
19,200 EGP

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The Vigilant Harlequin
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
18,000 EGP

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The Pensive Dancer
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 120 cm
18,000 EGP

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The Bridge
Acrylic on Canvas
80 x 120 cm
15,600 EGP

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Establishing of Ma'at
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 150 cm
19,200 EGP

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Benu Bird
Acrylic on Canvas
97 x 148 cm
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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


Example of an Abdullah Ali Butler painting in a private room

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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Abdullah Ali Butler with some of his artworks

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