Chelsea Arts Club opens exxhibition of works by Alex Manolatos
(Artdaily.org)

Artist Alex Manolatos has recently been involved in running a reading group at Pentonville Prison in north London. He meets the prisoners once a month for an opportunity to air views in a congenial atmosphere. Manolatos tries, by painting these meetings from memory, to express the interactions between the inmates within the ever-present hulk of the building. With previous experience in architecture (model commission for Richard Rogers in 1980, development of the Royal Albert Docks in 1982), Manolatos received a First Class Honours at the City and Guilds School of Art in 1986 and has since exhibited in group exhibitions at Bartley Grey Gallery, Lacey Contemporary, as well as two one-man shows at the Broadbent Gallery in Notting Hill and Chart Gallery in Church Street, Chelsea. He is also a talented graphic designer, and in the ‘90s ran