About

Email lukemorganartist@gmail.com

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Studio www.goolugatup-heathcote.com.au/tenants/luke-morgan

BIOGRAPHY

Luke Morgan is an artist and arts educator based in Perth, Western Australia.  His work centres on the figure with a focus on oil painting, ceramic sculpture and relief printmaking. Luke’s work explores the concept of social control, using street signs as an external representation of the internal forms of control that we place upon ourselves. By combining portraiture, text and symbols of social control, themes of mental health and wellbeing are examined. Luke has recently exhibited his work in a solo show ‘Keep Your Thoughts To Yourself’ at Ellis House and participated in a group show ‘Young Guns on the Left’ at Linton & Kay. He currently works from his studio at the Goolugatup Heathcote Precinct.

 ARTIST STATEMENT

My work examines themes of social control, mindfulness and mental health awareness. By exploring the external small everyday forms of social control, such as street signs and traffic lights that shape the way that we move throughout our day, the work aims to draw parallels with how we internally impose restrictions upon ourselves and our thoughts. The text ‘Give Way’, taken from street signs, acts as a recurring motif; giving way is a short act of surrendering control, allowing others to pass before continuing on your path. Street signs guide our experience of the places we inhabit, one element of a myriad of small acts of conformity. While these measures allow for a peaceful coexistence in society, I hope to provoke thoughts within the viewer, so that they recognise the small freedoms we give up in order to fit into society. In another motif, ‘Keep Your Thoughts To Yourself’, duality is explored. The phrase is a plea to others to consider the things they say while also being a warning to the self; keeping your thoughts to yourself may not always be healthy for your mental well-being.

Solo Exhibitions

2022 Occupy the Spaces Between - Victoria Park Centre for the Arts

2022 Keep Your Thoughts To Yourself - Ellis House Arts Centre

Group Exhibitions

2022 Young Guns on the Left - Linton & Kay West Perth

2022 Minnawarra Art Awards - Armadale District Hall

2022 Made in Midland Pop Up - Midland Junction Arts Centre

2021 We Are Nature - C02 Neutral Exhibition - Kamilė Gallery

2020 Modern Holiday - Kamilė Gallery

2020 HCP - In an Era of Isolation - Heathcote Cultural Precinct

2020 Lino Print Group Exhibition - ARMA Museum Ubud, Bali, Indonesia

Open Exhibitions

2022 City of Belmont Art Awards

2021 City of Melville Art Awards

2020 City of Melville Art Awards

2020 South Perth Emerging Artist Award - Highly Commended in Painting for "‘Isolation’

2019 Bassendean Visual Art Award

2016 South Perth Emerging Artist Award

Artist in Residence

2022 Midland Junction Arts Centre

Workshops

2022 Sculptural Busts - Canning Arts Group

2022 Plant Prints - Kids Workshop - Midland Junction Arts Centre

2022 Introduction to Lino Printing - Midland Junction Arts Centre

Studio

2022 City of Melville Open Studios

2020 City of Melville Open Studios