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Luke Gilliam
Profile Information
- Relationship status
- single
- College / University
- Trebas Institute Toronto
- Program
- Engineering
- Graduation
- 17 February 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...
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
Gallery Arcturus
Posted on 2nd October 2009 at 6:00pm —
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 Ayato… Continue
Posted on 17th July 2009 at 4:10pm —
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 particular… Continue
Posted on 8th July 2009 at 3:30pm —
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 08 ZENPHYREMOS - LIMITED EDITION PRINT - UNFRAMED - 2006 LYON … Continue
Posted on 29th June 2009 at 10:30pm —
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 important people, like Pillinger and… Continue
Posted on 18th February 2009 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment
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I had rather a disaster for the London Art Fair - my two biggest, best paintings of the set were trashed by the carriers - they just returned the battered box without a word, after we were frantically trying to find out where they were. I guess that's life, eh?
See photos here
Cheers, Mik
Hope you had a good festive holiday,
All the best for the New Year
Bill
Check your email for 2 sound installation links...I am listening right now to "Longplayer" which is scheduled to run for a 1000 years !! http://longplayer.org/
G
Cheers, Mik
Best Wishes
Bill
Sincerely, Vivian
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