ESPACIO GALLERY
  • Home
  • About us
  • Gallery hire
  • Contact
  • Art exhibitions
    • Current Exhibitions
    • Future exhibitions
    • Past exhibitions >
      • Past exhibitions 2025
      • Past exhibitions 2023-24
      • Past exhibitions 2022
      • Past exhibitions 2021
      • Past exhibitions 2020
      • Past exhibitions 2019
      • Past exhibitions 2018
      • Past exhibitions 2017
      • Past exhibitions 2016
      • Past exhibitions 2015
      • Past exhibitions 2014
      • Past exhibitions 2013
      • Past exhibitions 2012
  • Call for Artists
  • Artists
  • Art Collectors
  • Home
  • About us
  • Gallery hire
  • Contact
  • Art exhibitions
    • Current Exhibitions
    • Future exhibitions
    • Past exhibitions >
      • Past exhibitions 2025
      • Past exhibitions 2023-24
      • Past exhibitions 2022
      • Past exhibitions 2021
      • Past exhibitions 2020
      • Past exhibitions 2019
      • Past exhibitions 2018
      • Past exhibitions 2017
      • Past exhibitions 2016
      • Past exhibitions 2015
      • Past exhibitions 2014
      • Past exhibitions 2013
      • Past exhibitions 2012
  • Call for Artists
  • Artists
  • Art Collectors

Kanwal Dhaliwal

Artists     Next Artist

Kanwal Dhaliwal - Espacio Gallery
Kanwal Dhaliwal (b.1960-India) has drawn, sculpted and painted many themes from the life around him, whether he was in the country he grew up in or in the country he learned to call home. To start with (1985-95) the ‘Deorhee’ (doorway) interested him, a connection of the house to the outside world in a village-house of Panjab. This was mainly the women’s place. However his faces, done like landscapes, are more apparent on males where the land and their lives are really intertwined and this is reflected on their faces in the series –‘The Courts of Law’. His next series ‘The Dilemma’ (1996-00) shows split personalities who wonder where they are, why, and how.  Then followed ‘The Roots’ (2001-onwards). Here are uprooted trees, torn roots, trees, which look full and flourishing but lack roots, with big gaps between them and the earth.  Black and white dramas, trees hidden by black light and shade were now a part of Dahaliwal’s vision. In his latest series of paintings (2008-onwards) he has painted the personality portraits of such extraordinary individuals who have been either the victims of the unjust socio-political system or the ones who challenged such a system, or both. Where there are writers, poets, social activists, freedom-fighters and scholars in his selection, there also are ordinary souls who became extraordinary simply by being subjected to live under such circumstances that turned them into the rare examples of human endurance of pain and humiliation. 

Exhibitions
Rev It Up - Women’s History Month, Espacio Gallery, London, 2015
Second Nature, Espacio Gallery, London, 2014

The Valiant Ones - Portraiture of Extraordinary Lives, Solo, Ambedakr Hall, London, 2013
The Roots, Artist's Centre, Solo, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, India, 2011
Exhibition of Imaginative Portraits, RBSA Gallery Birmingham, 2008
Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London, 2007

Selected Works, Solo, Nehru Centre, the cultural wing of the Indian High Commission, Solo, London, 2005
Figure and the Face, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, London, 2004
Floral Expressions, Blue Wing Gallery, Kew, Richmond, London, 2003

Exposition Le Corbusier de Chandigarh à Ronchamp, Ronchamp, Solo, France, 2002
Kew Bridge Summer Art Show, Steam Museum, Kew Bridge, London, 2001
Salon D’ Automne, Couthenans, France, 2001
Open Studios, Redlees Art Studios, Isleworth, London, 2000

The Village, Solo, Trivani Gallery, Trivani Kala Sangam, New Delhi, India, 1995
Regional Art Exhibition, National Art Fair, Banglore, India, 1994

The Village, Solo, Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh, India, 1993
Sirjana-93, Galleries of the National Academy of Art, New Delhi, India, 1993
The Ambassador’s Choice, The National Museum of Modern Art, New Delhi, India, 1991
A Tribute to Gogh, Punjab Kala Bhawan Chandigarh, India, 1990
Annual Exhibition, Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi, Chandigarh, India, 1983

Articles

Kanwal Dhaliwal, Immigration, by Swapna Vora

Deorhee (The Entrance), Water Colour and Spray on Paper, 1986
The Village-II, Clay, 1987
The Immigrants, Terra Cotta, 2000
The Roots-III, Oil on Canvas, 2004
Life Goes On-II, Oil on Canvas, 2012
The Gap, Oil on Canvas, 2016
The Activist, Portrait of Emily Davison, Oil on Canvas, 2014
The Outcast, Portrait of Phoolan Devi, Oil on Canvas, 2011
The Immortal, Portrait of Bhagat Singh, Oil on Canvas, 2016
The Partition, Oil on Canvas, 2017
The Urban Solitude, Water Colour on Paper, 2019
Life Goes On (Drawing-2), Pen and Charcoal on Paper, 2009

► Website
► Email
► Tel: 07932 984019
Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 7DG

Tel:
07450 838183
[email protected]
Opening hours: 
Please check exhibitions details for their opening hours
Tube: Liverpool Street Station, Bethnal Green Station
Overground: Shoreditch High Street
Buses: 8, 388
© 2024 Espacio Gallery
    All Rights Reserved