Painting by Luke Morgan 8 Artworks Sold

Give Way - Reflection II

Oil, Wood, Ready to hang

45.5cm (W) x 61cm (H) x 3.8cm (D)

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Artwork Description

A reflection on mental health and mindfulness practices, this artwork aims to comment the internalisation of social control. Giving way is a short act of surrendering control, allowing others to pass before continuing on your path. This painting asks viewers to question how much control they surrender every day and to whom. The mirrored text taken from street signs, symbolises how our inner thoughts can be flipped and twisted, a distorted view of reality.

Artist Bio

Luke Morgan is an artist and arts educator based in Western Australia. His work is mostly figurative in nature and encompasses a range of studio areas with a focus on oil painting, ceramic sculpture and relief printmaking. A reflection on the symbolism of journey and the significance of myth in the formation of identity, his practice is represented in compositions that comment on the uncertainty of 21st century life.

Recent work explores the concept of social control, using street signs as an external representation of the internal forms of control that we place upon ourselves. By combining portraiture, text and symbols of social control, themes of mental health and wellbeing are examined.

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Luke's studio is in Perth, Western Australia