Luke Fuller
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BIOGRAPHY
Luke Fuller studied BA in 3D Design and Craft at the University of Brighton, UK, before graduating with a Master’s Degree in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art, UK, in 2020. The artist has won numerous prestigious awards, including the Nagoya University of Art Grand Prize in Japan, the UK Business Design Centre Designer of the Year Award, and the Anna Maria Desogus Memorial Graduate Award. He also received the Franz Rising Star Scholarship, the Charlotte Fraser Scholarship, and The Richard Seager Bursary Award. In 2022, the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK, acquired his monumental stoneware and porcelain sculpture Lode, which was featured in his seminal first solo exhibition, Terra-Form, held at the Gallery in 2021.
Every location has its own history, culture and community, which is inherently marked by human experience. Luke reflects upon this notion of place, often forged through industrialisation, and our enduring dependence on raw materials. Through processes of construction and the physicality of making, his work explores the complex layers of our society and infrastructure, in order to critique and understand the context in which we live. Using clay and other materials as a vehicle, Luke expresses his perceptions of landscape and the ambiguous relationship between humans and the natural environment.
The artist's work embodies a raw energetic power; its variegated forms and unbounded textural surfaces are inspired by the parallel layers of rock strata built up over a period of time. This can be closely compared to his process of compacting and pressing clay layer by layer into a cardboard mould. His technical facility allows him to push the sculptural aspect of his work to new and unexpected forms, which recall naturally wrought compositions of rock and stone risen from the earth.
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Works
Luke Fuller
Hollow Mass (Side Table II), 2024Stoneware61 H x 47 W x 47 D cm /
24 H x 18.5 W x 18.5 D inFurther images
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SIGNATURE WORKS-
Luke FullerXeric II, 2023Acquired by private collection
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Luke FullerNucleus, 2023Acquired by private collection
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Luke FullerLode, 2021Acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum, 2022
Stoneware & porcelain
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Luke FullerOrogen, 2020Acquired by private collection
Stoneware with porcelain
EXHIBITIONS
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Luke Fuller : Terra - form
the debut solo show 10 December 2021 - 29 January 2022' [These] empathetic, passionate sculptures explore the bodily in relation to land, space and time – surfaces poised between skin and rock as a representation of living human/nature. Coarse, highly... -
Earthly Bodies
Group Exhibition at Sarah Myerscough Gallery 24 April - 1 June 2024 -
Intersection | PAD Paris 2025
2 - 6 April 2025
NEWS
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One to Watch
December 1, 2019Recent graduate Luke Fuller is influenced by the industrial environment of Wales and the geological proccess of the earth, which he translates into his organic vessels and sculptures -
Luke Fuller: The Design Edit
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Tithe Barn: Grant Gibson with Luke Fuller, Eleanor Lakelin & Adi Toch
In this discussion, Grant Gibson, host of the Material Matters podcast, is joined by Adi Toch, Eleanor Lakelin, and Luke Fuller to illuminate the topic of craft and community as... -
Terra-Form: Luke Fuller
We are delighted to introduce the second in our series of exhibition catalogues , a companion to Luke Fuller's debut solo show Terra - form which opened at the gallery...
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