Luke Storrier Catalogue

LUKE STORRIER SOLO EXHIBITION

LUKE STORRIER | SOLO EXHIBITION 8 - 29 October 2015 Exclusive viewing location in CBD, Sydney For a private or group visit, contact Piermarq 02 9660 7799 or info@piermarq.com.au

As a sculptor Storrier has created for this solo exhibition works that are drawn from his understanding of weight, tension and form. Using found fabric, plaster and paint he has tackled the idea of drawing out the beauty of extremely simple materials and transforming them into something more dynamic and alive. This is juxtaposed against the complex, versatile and sustainable material of copper to create a sense of tension and weight.

Combining this with the flowing forms of the fabric the inherent qualities of the material are changed into a sculptural experience that invites the viewer to look more closely.

Working mainly with copper in his sculptural practice, Storrier employs this element as the corner stone to the relief paintings, utilising and harnessing the dynamism within the patina of the raw element.

The horizon line of outback rural Australia, where the expanse to the horizon seems tangible but endless, influences the horizontal exploration of these works. This dramatic empty landscape has an eerie tension that permeates everything in it and makes one inherently aware of one’s scale in relation to the expanse.

Above all Storrier is exploring the energy within the mark making process. Whether it be with paint, ink, fabric, plaster or copper he is exploring the diversity within these elements, extending and building on their inherent qualities, pushing and pulling them to the extreme. In this way he has also described himself as a ‘materialist’; he is informed by the different materials he works with, letting them inform him rather than forcing his vision onto the material itself.

“This allows the material to breathe, essentially letting it do the work and inform me” – Luke Storrier

LUKE STORRIER (b. 1982)

Sydney-based artist Luke Storrier has been developing his own unique visual ideas and style for over ten years, combining natural materials in juxtaposition to the contemporary world we live in today. Mainly – and successfully – working in the field of sculpture, Storrier recently started to explore the two-dimensional medium, creating some fine works on paper and canvas.

Being the son of one of Australia’s most celebrated artists, Luke Storrier grew up in an artistic milieu. He formalised his passion and talent having been an apprentice at the National Art School in Sydney, where he was the 2013 winner of the National Art school prize. Storrier’s work has been included in the 2014 Saatchi & Saatchi National Art School Graduate Exhibition, that showcased the artworks of emerging artists produced in their graduating year. The show attracted thousands of visitors who were drawn to see the works of a new generation of artists.

Spending much of his time gathering inspiration from the outback, Storrier plays with the idea of isolation and solitude found in these remote locations.

Gathering natural materials from these surroundings and letting these items inform the work, he endeavours to inject some majestic movement to these seemingly still and lifeless landscapes. Also, Storrier likes to play with the ideas of flight and flow mixed with a grounded sense of weight. He gathers inspiration from the shapes nature provides such as feathers, bones, rocks and dirt.

Storrier has had his work printed in several issues of Inside Out Magazine. Working in collaboration with Edit studio his work was on display at the Edit Studios launch party and more recently had works at the GQ Chivas Regal Studio launch. For his latest project Storrier collaborated with landscape designer and television presenter Charlie Albone for the award-winning Australian garden at the Chelsea Flower Show (2015) with “The Time In Between”. The Chelsea Flower Show is the world’s largest and most important garden and flower show. It takes place annually in Chelsea, London. The 250-kilogram, two-metrediameter wreath that Storrier made for the show is his biggest work to date, and was quite a challenge. “It took two months of hammering, heating and then weaving 180 metres of copper,” he says. Storrier was interviewed by Vogue Living on his contribution and featured in the magazine in July 2015.

Luke Storrier featured in Vogue Living, July 2015

Icarus, 2014 Found and recycled objects 300 x 400 x 75 cm

Beneath I, 2015 Mixed media on canvas 122 x 122 cm

Beneath II, 2015 Mixed media on canvas 122 x 122 cm

Flood plains, 2015 Mixed media on canvas 122 x 122 cm

Cumulus, 2015 Mixed media on canvas 122 x 122 cm

Rain dance, 2015 Mixed media on canvas 122 x 122 cm

The approach, 2015 Mixed media on canvas 153 x 213 cm

Beneath III, 2015 Mixed media on canvas 167 x 183 cm

Approaching storm, 2015 Mixed media on canvas 183 x 167 cm

Above the plains, 2015 Mixed media on canvas 167 x 153 cm

Half a tonne of compression, 2015 Recycled copper and wood 75 x 65 x 61 cm

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