Luke M Walker

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2019

b.1969

Walker’s practice derives from an exploration of the environment primarily through walking, his most  recent work involves collecting specific data on each walk, the length, the pace, the altitude or number of steps etc. and translating the data into a painting.
These ‘potential landscapes’ are paintings of the activity of walking and painting, but also of time and distance. It is these additional spatial and temporal qualities that he is keen to express in his work, whether through constructed landscapes or from a direct observation of the environment. They assimilate and estimate, showing structure, infrastructure and metastructure, moments of clarity break down to reveal the fragility of the image, they act as a record of both the activity of the artist in the landscape but also in the studio.
His relationship with the landscape has also changed and what once might have been described as homage to the environment has now become something more adversarial, with each body of work beginning to question the value of human activity; whether this is the construction of our cities, our stewardship of the environment or the role of the artist as a witness and how this can be expressed, part...

Luke M Walker is a London-based artist whose practice explores the relationship between landscape, memory, time, distance and materiality. Working across painting, interventions and collaborative projects, Walker examines how environments are experienced, recorded and transformed. His practice is rooted in walking, through which he gathers observations, data and traces of movement from both urban and remote landscapes.
He is also a qualified Interior & Spatial Designer and lectures on Art & Design.

2027- ‘Solo Show’ Zasso Gallery Taiwan
2026 ‘Under the Same Sky’ Touring Group show, GB
2025 ‘Beginnings’, Group Show, Zasso, Tainan, Taiwan
‘Moon Things,’ Group Show, London
‘See Here Now’ Group Show, Cumbria UK
2024 ‘Vanishing Point’, Solo show. Zasso Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan.
‘WaterLines’ The Wilderness Art Collective, Group show RGS-IBG, London
2023 ‘A Change of Pace’ Solo Exhibition, Bingham Riverhouse, Richmond, Surrey
‘The London Panorama’ Two-month artist residency and exhibition, Bankside Hotel,
‘Changing Landscapes’ The Wilderness Art Collective Group show.
‘The Viewing Room,’ Group Show, Sandra Higgins, London
Affordable Art Fair Battersea
‘Paradise Found – New Visions of the Blackdown Hills’ Thelma Hubert Gallery, Honiton
2022 Signature Art Prize 2022 – Alumni / Former Residency Showcase, Bankside, London.
2021 ‘A Forest in the City’ -large scale installation/mural for the Nine Elms Advent Trail.
2019/20 ‘Edgeland’ 2020 ‘Travels of the Mind’, 2019 Zasso Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
‘Landlin...