Harry Adams is the pseudonym used to present the collaborative paintings of artists Adam Wood and Steve Lowe.

Born 1965 and 1966, East London and Slough.
Lives and works in London and Hastings.
Studied at Derby, Southwark, Byam Shaw School of Art and University of Ulster.

Lowe is founder and Chief Engineer of the L-13 Light Industrial Workshop.

The duo have been making paintings and prints together as Harry Adams since 2007 but have collaborated on a wide array of projects since they met at art school where their first joint works were massively amplified and disruptive noise performances. After art college they played in the bands Buxom, The Impossible and zero ambition noise-rock cum alt-country outfit STOT21stCplanB (aka STOT21).

They started making visual art again in 2005, initially as STOT21stCplanB but then adopted the name Harry Adams as they became more interested in making serious paintings. Like starting a new band they came up with a name first to suit the work they wanted to make. It also had to begin with an A so it would be at the top of the list for group exhibitions. 

Their oil paintings are broad and ambitious in scope and steeped in the iconographies of painterly image and mark making; plundering and referencing art through the ages from the ancient to the contemporary. Current themes seem fixated on flooded landscapes or distant shorelines under towering skies and ominous looking suns/moons/portals, with some work veering off into abstraction with their Victory Over The Sun series.

They exhibit regularly but don’t get too involved with the art world. Their biggest exhibition to date was Harry Adams @67,000mph - a vast survey of their work at the Black Cube, a semi-fictitious/virtual gallery founded and run by their other alter egos STOT21stCplanB at a secret location on Fish Island.

HarryAdams.org
BlackCubeGallery.com