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LJane left a comment for Luke Gilliam
Thanks for the add! You have a really interesting practice, a geat body of work going!
Kat Anderton left a comment for Luke Gilliam
Thank you so much for the add, your profile and work is amazing. i will look forward to seeing much more of you x
Angela Cantrell left a comment for Luke Gilliam
just had a quick flick through your work Luke.....Fantastic...look forward to having a browse later...all the best to you angela x
Brian Daglish left a comment for Luke Gilliam
Thanks for the invite, I have family in Batheaston and friends in Freshford, I visit bath regular. I like you works also. I look forward to art and our conversations
Luke Gilliam shared Germán Britch's photo on Twitter
Art gallery Makek left a comment for Luke Gilliam
You are welcome :)
Luke Gilliam left a comment for Art gallery Makek
Thank you for the add - nice to meet you up here. I hold shows in the UK, Canada, and france. Best from Luke
Profile Information
- Relationship status
- single
- College / University
- Trebas Institute Toronto
- Program
- Engineering
- Graduation
- February 17, 1998
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Installation, Painting, Photography
- I am...
- A young painter living in England. Active in the industry including selling work to private collectors in the Bath Bristol Region. Frequently travel to France working with the music collective imuZZic made up of Bruno Tocanne, Adam Daudrich, Louis Sclavis, and Henri Texier to produce music and bring back ideas surrounding free improvisation, minimalism, and symbolism to feed into my paintings based here in the South West UK.
I frequently work at the St James Wine Vaults selling work and mixing live bands The Dusty Stars and Port Erin.
- About my artwork
- Disturbed, cut, mixed, geometric, multi dimensional, symbolic work often infused with fabric, metal, and blood. Made to sell but directed away from the commercial market in the UK and towards young philosophers and people into media studies.
I have been holding exhibitions and previews since 1994 which include...
BETWIXT AND BETWEEN , GALLERY ARCTURUS, Toronto March 2010
FEATURED ARTIST, B UNCUT ART GROUP, UK March 2010
FEATURED ARTIST, B UNCUT ART GROUP, UK Feb 2010
GROUP EXHIBITION, CITY ART GALLERY, Toronto Dec 2009
SENTINELS EXHIBITION, GALLERY ARCTURUS, Toronto Sep 2009
GROUP EXHIBITION, SMITH'S CAFE, Bath June 2009
COMMISSION, CAFE PARISIEN, Bath April 2009
GUEST CURATOR, BRITISH ART ACADEMY, Bath April 2009
GUEST CURATOR, BRITISH ART ACADEMY, Bath March 2009
GROUP EXHIBITION, BRITISH ART ACADEMY, Bath Feb 2009
GROUP EXHIBITION, BRITISH ART ACADEMY, Bath Jan 2009
MIXED MEDIA EXHIBITION, ST JAMES, Bath Nov 2008
BATH OPEN ART FAIR, Bath 2008
SIMPLETON, Bath 2008
NUIT BLANCHE, Toronto 2007
ZENPHYREMOS, Lyon 2006
ANIMOTS, Lyon 2006
NEW DAY VOLUME I, Lyon 2006
MR J FOR ALEX BELLEGARDE, Distillery , Toronto 2003
QUINSIN NACHOFF LIVE VOL II, Distillery , Toronto 2003
QUINSIN NACHOFF LIVE VOL I Distillery , Toronto 2003
MUSIC THAT LIVE FOR PEOPLE, Toronto 1998
SONG FOR CAITLIN, Toronto 1998
DOGMA, Directed by Kevin Smith, Toronto 1998
EARLY HUNGER, Maze Gallery , Toronto 1994
My process. I would say the most profound moments of my life have been studying South American shamanism or 'nagualism', producing jazz music, and listening to Hungarian folk music. In particular it is the sorrow and 'ungraspability' or 'intangibilty' (or just 'mystery' if that is easier) of Hungarian folk music that conjures voyages in my subconscious. I begin with a memory of one of these profound moments and use found objects in my studio such as books and sheet music as the beginning of a shape or symbol that goes direct onto the canvass. It is from that starting point that I build outwards by cutting, scraping and reshaping the source symbol that I realize what needs to be added, either with paint, charcoal, metal, or fabric in order to arrive at a finished piece. In this way I transform my perception of what has ignited me by moving my hands. The movement sets the transformation into motion until the source symbol has become a new being. I do not see these as paintings or sketches but as voicings or statements coming direct from the source of the universe onto the physical medium in my studio. This is my process.
Most of my work is a homage to my friends Bruno Tocanne, side man to the veteran violinist Didier Lockwood, and Heiner Stadler, producer to the late John Lee Hooker and director of Labor Records. It is their ideas that drive me. It is thereby art inspired by experimental music and all of the symbology surrounding it.
Three snippets of information about me from three friends:
"I looked at Luke's work [zenphyremOs]. It's beautiful! It's really amazing. It's also the sort of work that people would want to buy."
Sally Clark - Writer, Vancouver
"(A Passagem) ? uma bela combina??o de texturas, superf?cies e m?dia. Seja enquanto fotografia, colagem ou desenho, eles s?o bem combinados e lembram-nos de que ? poss?vel compor algo belo e mesmo assim provocante. Uma representa??o visual muito expressiva da experi?ncia t?til.? "
Rodrigo O.L.C. Bernardo - Student To Thomas Farkas, Sao Paulo
New Day Volume 1
"I listened to Luke's music. It is strong and to the point. I like it."
Heiner Stadler - Labor Records, New York
- Artists I like
- Pretty much Joan Miró. In reality though I don't actually care what people are doing. I steal people's work regularly, cut it, edit it and remake it until I arrive at an honest reflection of what I see in the world around me. Thereby I don't care about Joan Miró or any other artist, old or new, here in the UK or overseas. It is irrelevant if you know that creating in the moment is all that exists and that most of people's opinions add up to be of little use to echo the true voice of the source.
- Interests
- Eating crisps at odd angles and speaking Russian at youth hostels across the UK. Researching how music and art connect. Please check out the following websites!! ::
http://www.laborrecords.com/
http://cdbaby.com/cd/adamdaudrich
http://www.brunotocanne.com/
http://www.niccosta.com
- What exhibitions are good at the moment?
- They had some lithographs from Guernica at the White Room Gallery which were pretty interesting. At (the spacious and somewhat bizarre) Victoria Art Gallery they did present some work recently by Keith Vaughan which was a real eye opener not to mention a exhilirating experience.
- Centre of the artworld:
- my studio
Luke Gilliam's Blog
Catalogue Of Sold Work
01 EARLY HUNGER - LIMITED EDITION PRINT - FRAMED - 1997 TORONTO
02 EARLY HUNGER - LIMITED EDITION PRINT - FRAMED - 1997 TORONTO
03 STUDY OF SYMBOLS - OIL ON CANVAS - 2003 TORONTO
04 JOIE DE SNCF - LIMITED EDITION PRINT - FRAMED - 2005 TORONTO
05 ZENPHYREMOS - LIMITED EDITION PRINT - UNFRAMED - 2006 LYON
06 ZENPHYREMOS - LIMITED EDITION PRINT - UNFRAMED - 2006 LYON
07 ZENPHYREMOS - LIMITED EDITION PRINT - UNFRAMED - 2006 LYON
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Posted on June 28, 2010 at 9:00pm
Gallery Arcturus
For three months during summer 2009 monuments were set up in the space and artists were invited in to work on collages, mixed media works, and paintings on canvas side by side Head Painter and art veteran Deborah Harris, whilst listening to an electronic soundscape installed as part of the exhibition.
Through sound, dialogue, and interaction… Continue
Posted on October 2, 2009 at 5:00pm
Leyla Farzadi Article Case Study
For those artists, writers, and students who are not familiar with my work. My work is almost never political. After the protests in Iran on june 17th I spoke to a friend at Amnesty International who inspired me with her words. I researched the protests and wrote a letter to the head of the judiciary in tehran, a city that should have been a part of the free thinking world a long time ago. I used a form of pressurised language to notify the people at the head of the judiciary, specifically… Continue
Posted on July 17, 2009 at 3:10pm
A Hommage To My Colleagues
Personal Notes On Art.... It seems odd to format a hommage to some of my colleagues on a art magazine website. However lack of a large commercial site with a much needed administrator and also the self realisation that the artists I have worked with since 1994 come from so many different backgrounds makes it hard for me to realise who would write down our collaborations in one place? Probably no one. Here is a hommage to some of the people I have worked with and also worked for, in no… Continue
Posted on July 8, 2009 at 2:30pm
Note To The Public
I was recently asked to write a description for a small series of paintings I have made for the British Art Academy called "4 Day Fast To Stop War"
In general I don't like writing about individual paintings.
So I won't.
What I think is pertinent. Also severely overdue. Is a review as to why there is a war in Iraq. I remember following it very closely in 2003 and 2004 in all of the newspapers in Toronto. Then buying books about the subject written by… Continue
In general I don't like writing about individual paintings.
So I won't.
What I think is pertinent. Also severely overdue. Is a review as to why there is a war in Iraq. I remember following it very closely in 2003 and 2004 in all of the newspapers in Toronto. Then buying books about the subject written by… Continue
Posted on February 18, 2009 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment
Comment Wall (399 comments)
- At 3:55pm on February 2, 2012,
LJane said…
Thanks for the add! You have a really interesting practice, a geat body of work going!
- At 3:15pm on January 31, 2012,
Kat Anderton said…
Thank you so much for the add, your profile and work is amazing. i will look forward to seeing much more of you x
- At 10:40am on January 27, 2012,
Angela Cantrell said…
just had a quick flick through your work Luke.....Fantastic...look forward to having a browse later...all the best to you angela x
- At 6:06pm on January 26, 2012,
Brian Daglish said…
Thanks for the invite, I have family in Batheaston and friends in Freshford, I visit bath regular. I like you works also. I look forward to art and our conversations
- At 10:06pm on January 4, 2012,
Germán Britch said… Master Luke!!!! nice to hear , ( read) your message!!!, and as always thanks for your comment.
I'm trying to redefine some conceptual lines about my work in Art. , In fact I've not arrived to a satisfactory answer yet......
Of course I'll take a look on your last five works you've posted.(then an accordingly comment of course).
Where have you been lately?????Hugs and the best year for you.....
- At 5:07pm on September 30, 2011,
Art gallery Makek said…
- You are welcome :)
- At 3:00am on July 10, 2011,
simon scheuerle said… Cheers Luke,
I worked hard to make objects that embody a strong physical presence without striving to be 'Art'. Of Course they are still shown in the traditional white cube but the overall feeling was definately not a 'sculpture show' More a scientific otherworldy feel where the viewer was immersed within the space and objects.
- At 9:27pm on June 6, 2011,
PETIT DELOR said… Cool mec,
bon toutes tes oeuvres sur B uncut,
moi pas connaître avant ta rencardisation,
t'expose en francia parfois ?
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- At 9:26am on March 27, 2011,
Ekaterina Alexander said… - Hi Luke, enjoyed looking at your new art work, the choice of formats is very interesting too. I changed my profile (again), it will be interesting to know your opinion about my new photo series somewhat inspired by the recent events in Japan, Ekaterina
- At 2:49pm on March 14, 2011,
Rossello Damiano said…
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