Art in Your Community: Luke Adams

This Art in Your Community exhibition features the work of our very first Artist in Residence Luke Adams.

It is comprised of 10 small studies of the Lake Macquarie landscape and foreshore documented in the early and evening light. This research-based residency and observational studies will act as tools to develop a larger body of work.

Luke Adams: Lake House Artist Residency

Luke Adams has a personal connection to ‘place’ in Speers Point, where he was born and raised. His family home had mostly unimpeded views of Lake Macquarie and the natural beauty of the local area is very much part of his psyche.

He attended Speers Point Primary School and Booragul High School (now Lake Macquarie High School). After studying fine arts at Ron Hartree and Hunter Street art schools, he relocated to Melbourne to further his studies.

Adams has been a practicing contemporary artist for 25 years in multiple disciplines including painting, sculpture, video, photography, installation and kinetic works. Recently he has returned to exploring traditional modes of painting within the scope of his broader contemporary practice. 

While researching the local history of Speers Point and Boolaroo, Adams’ discovered the Lake House Artist Residency Program, and became the first artist in residence with the City of Lake Macquarie.

During this residency Adams captured ‘beauty’ through the traditional artistic process of pen sketches and small paintings from direct observation as he followed old footsteps, took photographs, made notes, and generated this series of en plein air paintings documented in both the early and evening light.

These observational studies were created within the local community and aim to act as prompts for further development and collectively form the first major step into developing an ambitious work that will culminate in a solo exhibition.

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About the Lake House Artist Residency

This iteration of Art in your community showcases the Lake House Artist Residency, an inspiring new opportunity for artists and creatives at any stage of their careers.

This program is a new initiative of Council offering artists time, space and inspiration to devote to a new or existing project, and attracts exciting new arts activity to the City.

The Lake House provides artists with the space they need to focus on what inspires them the most to take their artistic practice to the next level.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

When

Location

Museum of Art and Culture (MAC), 1A First Street, Booragul 2284, Booragul 2284  View in Google Maps