Restless Ribeiro: An Indian Artist in Britain

This lavishly illustrated catalogue for the forthcoming Lance Ribeiro 2013 exhibition at Asia House is a fitting tribute to one of the most striking, if under-valued, artists of our time. By the early 1960s, Bombay-born artist Lancelot Ribeiro (1933 - 2010) or Lance, as he was later known, had had six one-man shows, and his work had toured India, Europe and North America in Ten Indian Painters. He was one of the founder members of The Indian Painters Collective, the multicultural Rainbow Group and Indian Artists UK, and organised exhibitions and lectured on Indian art and culture for the Commonwealth Institute. After two major retrospectives in the 1980s, he exhibited in Germany and Switzerland and again in India in 1998. His last public showing was in Britain just three months before his death in 2010. This catalogue demonstrates not only the highly original nature of Ribeiro's work and how he experimented with new materials ahead of his time, but how he also worked tirelessly to promote Indian art, its artists and culture in Britain. Reproducing over 70 works in full colour, this book also includes contributions from those who knew Ribeiro well, private photographs, and letters from his family archive, many of which have come to light for the first time. AUTHOR: Katriana Hazell is a freelance curator with over 15 years experience of curating exhibitions of Asian art. From 1997 to 2009 she was the Cultural Director of Asia House and over this time she developed an innovative programme of exhibitions establishing Asia House as one of the major venues for Asian arts in the UK. Prior to this she curated exhibitions at the Commonwealth Institute, the National Museums of Scotland and the Scottish Arts Council. SELLING POINTS: A monograph presenting the work of Bombay-born artist Lance Ribeiro Considerable publicity expected for the accompanying exhibition at the Asia House, London in 2013 Unseen family archive, including photographs and letters Reassesses the currently underrated Ribeiro as an artist 70 colour illustrations