Ru Knox at British Art Fair

Guerin Projects will present a solo booth of artworks by painter Ru Knox in the Solo Contemporary 2025 section of British Art Fair curated by Zavier Ellis at Saatchi Gallery this September. British Art Fair is at Saatchi Gallery, London from 25-28 September, 2025.

Guerin Projects founder Marie-Claudine Llamas is presenting a curated selection of new works by Ru Knox at British Art Fair. This new body of work by British artist Ru Knox focuses and describes with great beauty the movements made by ballerinas, their gestures becoming allegories to the passing of time and the ethereality of life. Ru’s works also reference Degas’s famous impressionist renditions of young ballerinas, bathed in Impressionism, those works were a crucial part of early Modernism, the understanding of space, and the recollections of nostalgic narration.

Ru has a rare and potent emotional expression which has culminated from years of imaginative experimentation with various painting techniques and textures. His Florentine observational precision and handling of the paint, textures and forms capture the psychology and immortalise the souls of his sitters.

Curator and Guerin Projects founder MC Llamas says: “In his most recent body of work, Ru Knox uses dance to articulate composition, his brush creates the liaisons between the movements of the medium, orchestrated by the artist, conductor of the paint.”

A classically trained British artist working primarily in oil paint on canvas, Ru studied for over 10 years under the tutelage of Charles Cecil in Florence before becoming a tutor of academic drawing and oil painting at the Studios. Ru went on to complete a master’s degree at City and Guilds of London Art School and also qualified in architectural interior design. 

Frustrated by the limitations of traditional aesthetics, Ru explored new paths through years of idea exploration and experimental techniques. In 2019, he solidified his thoughts and processes by earning a Master's in Fine Art at City and Guilds, where his MA exhibition caught the attention of collectors and galleries, leading to his first solo show 'Rapture' at Waluso Gallery in 2020. The following years propelled him to prominence in the art world and has exhibited at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and in the legendary 'Art in the Age of Now' at Fulham Town Hall in 2021. Ru participates in art fairs all over, including Volta, The Other Art Fair, and London Art Fair.

Collectors’ Preview - £60
General Admission - £22
Concessions - £19

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