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...

Luke M. Walker is an Artist, Designer and Curator, he has been painting and exhibiting his works regularly since 2009 and completed an MA in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2014
He is also a qualified Interior & Spatial Designer and lectures on Art & Design.

2020
'EdgeLands' Zasso Contemporary, Taichung, Taiwan

2019
Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London
The Royal Academy of Arts - Summer Exhibition
'Landlines' - The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) - London
'Travels of the Mind' Zasso Contemporary, Taichung, Taiwan

2018
'The Transient City' - A solo show with D Contemporary, Mayfair.
Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, London

2017
'Uncommon Ground' - The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London
Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London

2016
'The Mountain Arts Festival - Cumbria

2015
'Convergence: Swim, Walk, Explore' Contemporary Collective, London
The Mountain Arts Festival - Rheged, Cumbria
'What I tell you in the dark' - Group show Waterloo
Signature Art Prize Winners, Degree Art.
Painting the Future, Degree Art.
Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London
One Place Ten - Chelsea College of the Art

2014
MA Show – City & Guilds of London Art School.
One. Place. Two, Chelsea College of the Arts

2013
401½ Studios, London
MA Interim Show, City & Guilds London Art School
All in One Place, Chelsea College of the Arts

2012
401½ Studios, London
Untitled Arts, Chelsea Old Town Hall
Art in Mind – ‘Illusion’ Group show,
Brick Lane Gallery, L...