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Luke Frost (b. 1976)
Luke Frost is a British abstract painter
living and working in West Cornwall.
Despite his notable heritage, as Son of
the English painter Anthony Frost and
the Grandson of the celebrated Modernist
painter Sir Terry Frost, his paintings could
be seen to instead echo a formality found in
1960s American hard-edge, post-painterly,
abstraction. However Frost has developed
his own means of exploring complex
colour relationships, be they harmonious
or provocative, and their impact on their
surroundings alongside an internal and
more contemplative space.
Frost began exhibiting in 2003 following
studies at Falmouth and Bath Schools
of Art. His work was featured in ‘Art
Now Cornwall’ at Tate St Ives in 2007
and in 2008 he was awarded a Tate St
Ives artist in residency during which
time he worked at Porthmeor Studio No.
5, formerly occupied by Ben Nicholson
and Patrick Heron. His solo exhibition
‘Paintings in Five Dimensions’ was shown
at Tate St Ives in 2009. He has since
exhibited in Cornwall, London and USA,
with essays written on his work by Matthew
Collings, Tony Godfrey and Michael Klein.
Yellow Volts
acrylic on canvas, 61 x 107 x 107 cm
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