Foxtrotting with Killers, Clowns and Lovers

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Ealing Project

1 High Street, Ealing, W5 5DB

June-July 2024

'Foxtrotting with Killers, Clowns and Lovers' is Lucky Azad's 5th solo art show. 

This work takes a nosedive into the many characters and worlds that pass through Lucky’s mind in his other crazed love of writing. His characters cover the spectrum our world has to behold- from the heroic to the shrinking coward, the dancing murderer to the silenced dreamer- there is a character for everyone. 

The exhibition consists of 36 ink and watercolour illustrations. All of these pieces will be presented in charmingly elegant double-mounted 7 x 5 frames. 

The Holy Art Gallery, The Factory

21-31 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2DA 

10-12th March 2023

Private View 10th March 7.30-10pm 

'Night Night, Love' is Lucky Azad's 4th solo art show. 

The show is a visual love-letter to who he believes is the most beautiful person he has encountered. This series pays homage to the happiness he felt by their lives colliding and the many ways in which he had the honour of wishing said person a goodnight. 

In this show you'll get the opportunity to enjoy the different worlds of visual similes he weaved together in messages before heading into the dreamless or dreamful according to fate. 

The exhibition consists of 24 bold, beautiful, colourful and childishly absurdist images of hand-drawn and digitally illustrated animal characters living in collage-concocted worlds. 

All of these pieces are presented in charming A3 prints, framed in elegantly mounted A2 frames.  

BSMT SPACE

529 Kingsland Road

Dalston, London

E8 4AR

13 - 24th July 2022 

Small World - Big Circus is the third solo exhibition of emerging artist Lucky Azad. 

The exhibition consists of a series of 20 prints portraying the pandemonium of the world’s affairs in a glorious array of ecstatic colour. Lucky has illustrated busy digital images in a style which he describes as ‘Hieronymus Bosch for the Simpsons generation’.  

Small World- Big Circus focusses on everything from war, immigration and warring stripes of politics to cinema, music and the eradication of gender stereotypes.  

These prints look to speak a personal unfettered truth through bold composition, character and point of view.  

BRICK LANE GALLERY

216 Brick Lane

Bethnal Green, London

E1 6SA

1st – 5th June 2016

Blasphemy is the second solo exhibition of emerging artist Lucky Azad.

Blasphemy is a series of 40 paintings celebrating the right to criticise. Blasphemy hails the right to question, ridicule and deconstruct anything. Lucky believes that there is nothing sacred and thus there is absolutely nothing which can be blasphemed against. He concludes the act of blasphemy does not exist; ‘a world in which you can have your ideas crushed, deconstructed and falsified is indeed the only world worth living in.’

The paintings are bold, iconoclastic, playful and comedic. They’re a rich assortment of colour, style, point of attack and texture. Lucky invites you into the worlds of punch lines, into the worlds you believe shouldn’t be formed because they’re not allowed, into the worlds of white noise absurdity which you’d only notice as such if you stepped back.

Blasphemy does not aim to shake anyone’s belief and neither does it believe itself able to do so, however, it hopes to make you laugh at it.

MENIER GALLERY

51-53 Southwark Street

London

SE1 1RU

18th - 23rd July 2011

Laughing Lucifer is the first solo exhibition of emerging artist Lucky Azad.

Laughing Lucifer is a series of 60 paintings  which delve into the dark world of his distressed psyche in the time. A visual psyche in which live; figures tearing each other apart, dripping hands over lustful manifestations and jesters attacking the Prussian eagles which hang over them. 

The paintings deal with episodes of mental illness, identity, love, loathing, hatred, loneliness and loss. In this exhibition, it can be said that all has been- perhaps for therapeutic reasons- poured onto the canvas. 

In this first exhibition, Lucky delivers a strong bold coloured fist, establishing a tone and style from which his later works continue to grow and resemble. 

Each piece of work is displayed alongside a piece of poetry, illustrating exactly the words which helped put the vivid compositions together.