Born in 1979, Rinteln, W.Germany

Al Braithwaite is a contemporary artist from London, who works across a variety of disciplines including sculpture, assemblage, found material and installation. His work fits into a tradition of conceptual art, recalling Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus, and aspects of Orphism.

Al co-founded The Offscreen Group with writer Henry Hemming in 2002. The group worked in a number of countries on a low-budget model like the Beat poets, the Black Audio Film Collective or the Russian group AES+F. During its time the group was joined by feminist filmmaker Georgie Weedon and curator Stephen A. Stapleton, co-founder of Edge of Arabia. From 2005 Al pursued more solo work, continuing the same low-budget model but for his own purposes. An interest in considering different contexts led him to places like Ground Zero, United States, and Trinidad in the West Indies, which have both impacted his work. Hybrid textures play a significant role in his practice.

His piece The Limes Installation (2014) showed to small audiences at Alice Yard, Port of Spain, a non-profit project space with an ongoing residency programme, in its seventh year.