Studio Install – Luke Bebb

 

This installation recreates elements of the space at Project Art Works, where artists Luke Bebb and Oliver Crowther regularly work together in co-creative exchange.

 

Through the run of the exhibition, there will be moments of presence and making. At other times traces of Luke and Oliver’s ongoing collaborative processes and works will remain in the space. The installation more generally, offers an insight into supportive studio practice, and how art and creativity can generate greater agency for people, positively impacting ways of being in the world beyond the studio.

 

Through the recreation of this working environment, audiences are invited to consider the relationships and conditions that make artistic practice possible, and the importance of radical and responsive approaches in contemporary art making.

 

“Over the 7 or so years Luke and I have been working together we seem to have developed a considerate language of perseverance, through the making of marks and erasures. Perhaps the success of any endeavour, collaborative or otherwise, ultimately depends on the generative energy found between forces in opposition. Luke keeps his cards pretty close to his chest on such things. What does seem clear to both of us is that neither of us could make these paintings on our own.” Oliver Crowther.

 

“Good man.” Luke Bebb

 

Luke has had a long association with the Project Art Works and exhibited in major group exhibitions, including Ignition at Hastings Contemporary (2021–22), Residential at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (2023–24) and Copenhagen Contemporary (2024).

 

Oliver is an artist, and an artist facilitator at the Project Art Works studios.