Luke M Walker
co-founder and committee member
Luke M Walker’s art practice derives from an exploration of the environment primarily through walking, painting and drawing. His ‘Datascapes’ series involved collecting specific data on each walk, the length, the pace, the elevation or number of steps etc. and translating the data into a painting which become physical representations of the momentary act of walking itself.
These ‘potential landscapes’ are also paintings of time and distance and it is these additional spatial and temporal qualities that he is keen to express in his work, whether through constructed landscapes or from a direct observation of the environment. They act as a record of both the activity of the artist in the landscape but also in the studio.
His relationship with the landscape has changed, and what once might have been described as homage to the environment has now become something more adversarial, with each body of work beginning to question the value of human activity; whether this is the construction of our cities, our stewardship of the environment or the role of the artist as a witness and how this can be expressed through painting and collective action.