35 Views
7
View In My Room
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 29.9 W x 35.8 H x 2.4 D in
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35 Views
7
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
London, as with most cities is in a constant state of change, buildings seem permanent and immovable but all will eventually go. Many are lost to catastrophic events; the Great Fire, the Blitz, usually it is a gradual war of attrition, of boom and bust, fashion or just neglect. It is often only the underlying structure that remains, the mediaeval street patterns, the sewerage system, the infrastructure on which a city survives which acts as a palimpsest of its former incarnation. It is this transience that Luke M Walker aims to examine in this series of works as a painter and walking artist who has spent much of the last ten years exploring the streets of London. As an architecturally-trained Interior and Spatial Designer, Walker is regularly drawn to the construction sites, documenting these markers of change before, during and after their transformation. From a lofty position on some of the city’s highest landmarks, from Vauxhall, to St Pauls to The Sky Gardens, Walker paints the fluid nature of the city as is morphs its way along the Thames like the turning of the tides.
Original Created:
2018
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Painting:
Oil on Canvas
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
29.9 W x 35.8 H x 2.4 D in
Frame:
Black
Ready to Hang:
Not applicable
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Ships in a Crate
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Luke M Walker
United Kingdom
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, particularly but not exclusively, through painting.
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