About the work

‘Evangeliser/Seculariser’ (2021) belongs to a series of drawings of fictive objects that reference ecclesiastical architecture, church furniture or liturgical devices. Here a detached church steeple emerges from, or withdraws through an indeterminate surface suspended in space via unseen support.

Date and country of birth

1966, GB

Career Highlights

Illusions Are Real, 10th Manif dart Quebec City Biennial, Canada (2022); Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London (2021); Casting for the Voice of Strength, Stanley Picker Gallery, London (2016); Twenty-First-Century Silks, Ryan Lee, NY, USA (2016); VIII Bienal de Jafre, Spain (2017); The Act of Magic, STUK, Leuven, Belgium (2017); Explode Every Day, MASS MoCA, Massachusetts, USA (2016-17); The Great Transformation, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany (2008); Belief, 1st Singapore Biennial (2006); Tommy Angel, David Risley Gallery, London (2006).

Allen is the author of Lost Envoy (Strange Attractor Press/MIT 2016/2023), and an Associate Fellow at the Warburg Institute.