‘The CASE FOR FORCING’ will be an exhibition comprising of Luke George’s most recent body of work: A series of ruminations on the componentry of contemporary landscape.

By subjecting modern artefacts to the violence and revival inherent in translation, we access the potential for collaboration between systems and lay bare the stark incompatibilities.

Consistent with previous output, a number of large scale paintings play host to a proportion of the experimentation, but will be accompanied by novel produce from endeavours into printmaking and metalwork.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Luke George is an abstract painter based in Liverpool, currently studying for his MFA (Painting) at Manchester School of Art. Luke’s large-scale painted works are the product of time-intensive, cumulative mark-making, which finds anchorages in colour and a balance between abstract and figurative imagery; between minimalism and excess.

HIS paintings represent a combined output sourced from both an inward, autobiographicalconcentration and a more outward perspective, with which Luke reflects upon the modern environment, interested primarily in the capacity in which painting can operate as a method of documentation of memory.

Luke incorporates a variety of imagery throughout his work, borrowing from classical notions of landscape and portraiture painting, which are then reimagined, collaged and presented with a modern, sexualised and reductionist twist in order to invent scenes rich which colour and a vibrancy that suggests joyous contentment, but are often occupied by bashful, uncomfortable and mischievous characters which inject an uncertainty and an innate unease into their surroundings. Fraught with abstract verdancy and suggestions of a figure, Luke's paintings imbue a sense of the strangeness in the seemingly normal, offering a perverse beauty within a world informed by the colourists and abstract expressionists alike, that shine through in thoughtful reductions.