Luke Roberts
Luke’s artist practice spans a broad range of disciplines: Utilising painting, drawing, text works and sculpture in their installations. Their approach to working is motivated by an exploration of their relationship with their queerness.
“My works hope to form a makeshift archive: welcoming craft, play and campness whilst documenting the intricacies of my queerness, in particular: gender and memory. I hope to explore the facets of contemporary queer life including; community, safety, risk, the act of experimenting, of being comfortable, of feeling out of place, feeling both connected to and simultaneously disassociated, and transfer these into analogue representations of queer joy in a world where it is radical to feel so. I want to emphasise play in my works in order to contribute to and expand upon the rapidly changing idea of Queer Aesthetics.”
Luke Roberts (they/them) is artist originally from Anglesey, North Wales and currently based in Cardiff. Having graduated from a BFA in 2018, Luke then a year-long ‘Inc space’ arts business residency within the Cardiff School of Art and Design. Following the completion of this they moved on to co-found the artist-led Klatch collective in 2018 which hosts open calls, residencies and exhibitions aiming to encourage engagement between emerging artists and outside disciplines. Since this time Luke has worked on various projects with Cardiff Umbrella.
The artist was in the following exhibition:
Fanatic
