Septaria

2024
Stoneware, Porcelain, Glaze
65 x 53 x 58 cm | 25.6 x 20.9 x 22.8 in.

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.

Luke’s work reflects on the history and culture of places shaped by human experience, often through industrialization and our enduring reliance on raw materials. Through processes of construction and the physicality of making, he critiques and explores the societal layers and infrastructures that define our landscape. Using clay and other materials such as stoneware, Luke is acutely aware of mineral and cultural contexts which are embedded in his practice prior to the act of making. His work’s raw energy and the artist’s technical skill in compacting and pressing clay into layers allows him to create sculptures reminiscent of sedimentary rock formations while pushing his practice into new and unexpected forms.