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Born in the Bahamas in 1971, Alessandro Raho graduated from Goldsmiths College, London, in 1994. The following year he was part of the Young British Artist showcase Brilliant! at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis – now seen as one of the defining moments for the British contemporary art scene. He has since had numerous solo exhibtions worldwide and his work is held in galleries including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Raho brings a contemporary approach to fine oil painting, specialising in portraits of friends and family along with landscapes and seascapes, and was commissioned to create a portrait of Dame Judi Dench for the National Portrait Gallery in 2005. After moving to Hastings in 2012, he was nominated for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2014, and was featured in Alexei Sayle’s ´óÏó´«Ã½ Four documentary about the award. In this clip from the show, Sayle visits Raho in Hastings and gets a first-hand demonstration of his oil painting technique.