Luke Gray

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Hailing from Leicester, England, Luke Gray is a surrealist/symbolist illustrator and painter. Born color blind he was forced to use an almost exclusively black and white colour palette, working with patterns and textures rather than color.

After studying graphic design in London he packed his bags and flew to Russia, then hitchhiked from Moscow to Thailand painting murals as he went. After 4 years of travelling, visiting over 50 countries he settled in Southern China and built a studio from which he now works.
Influenced by multicultural art techniques he works in traditional mediums of Graphite and Ink often combining and integrating techniques and patterns from different countries and cultures into his work.

His meticulously detailed works resonate with images culled from the metaphysical realm of sacred states and day dream. By exploring the concept of the body-landscape through esoteric symbolism, he tries to appropriate a wide scale of subjects that work on both a micro and macro level. Throughout his work he weaves themes of mysticism, esoteric symbolism , ancient mythology and hallucinogenic visions.

An amateur ethnologist, when travelling he enjoys visiti...

BA Degree, School of Architecture and Visual Arts, London. 2008-2011

2019 Saatchi Gallery, Cash is king, Aug 21 (group), London

2019 Between Mountains & Seas, (solo)[AR] Origin Gallery,Chengdu

2018 Infinite Mantra (solo) [AR] YingGallery, Shanghai,China

2019 Centennial Bloom (solo) - Chrom Art, London

2019 Evolve (group) Aeon Gallery, Ill, USA

2020 Beautiful & Damned, BSMT Space (group), London

2019 StourSpace / Picknik of Art (group) London, UK

2019 PopupA.R.T / OMA / Artivive (group)[AR] Tel Aviv Israel

2019 Blank Walls, The Arches,(group) London, UK

2019 Critica Festival, (group) Shanghai

2019 Ethical Bean Co. (solo) London, UK

2019 Vagabond Fest, Tank Gallery , (group)Shanghai

2019 Vagabond Art festival, 496 Art Park,(group) Chengdu, China

2019 Vagabond Art Festival ,Onto, (group) Wuhan ,China

2018 Daydream [AR], (solo) Hainan, China

2018 Dilated Pupils (solo) Angel, London, UK

2018 Ozora, Mirador (Group) Budapest Hungary

2018 Jealous Gallery, Rooftop Installation, (solo) London, UK

2018 Visions of the Sand (solo) Marrakech, Morocco

2017 Shoreditch platform, 3 floor Installation, (solo), London, UK

2017 Google Campus, Lobby Installation, (solo) London

2016 Bond Dickenson x Creative ...