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Luke Drozd (b.1981 Derby UK) is an artist based in London intent on creating a body of work that is visceral, rich and varied. He studied BA Fine Art at Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, England and is currently by day studying towards a Masters in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, whilst at night he creeps through the corridors of the world of contemporary illustration.

Artist Statement


My practice takes in a multitude of arts disciplines including sculpture and drawing, video and print based works.

The core focus of my work is about selection; based on my collections and collecting whilst not merely displaying the collections themselves. Elements may remain and work may be constructed that resembles, or indeed contains, objects that I’ve hoarded, from human hair to reconfigured record sleeves, but some sort of alteration must ultimately occur. It is removed from notions of the wünderkammen as I don’t wish to order and group, more to subvert and shuffle. There needs to be more, an element of transformative power in order for things to spark, to find some sort of subtle beyond.

The final creations then are dependent on a prior creation as a trigger: a found illustration from a 1980’s comic becomes a life-size lunar module or discarded carpet tiles are
transformed into a wall-mounted colour study, part Allied Carpets, part Gerhard Richter.

I am a broker if you will, a medium through which to transform and invest, attempting to tread the ground between ‘whispering mystic and the subtle comedian’ 1. The articles I
attempt to rescue from their own oblivion are used in a way that attempts to regenerate them, altering things to create, through their combination and manipulation, an infinite
reverie. Elements are placed together in order to form a new work and whilst not merely becoming a collection of their parts. They supersede the individual narrative of the
components to create work that employs a technical fragility in order to construct a
humorous charm, one that is far from ‘Duchampian’ in its lack of cynicism. It is therefore about opening up spaces rather than delimiting them; learning to trust the Punctum.


1. Neo Rausch, ’The Mystery of Painting’, Sammlung Goetz, München, 2001

You can contact Luke via www.lukedrozd.com

Abandon Ship

2008
Monopoly counters & varnish
Variable

Hole-In-One No.4

2007
Paperback books & biro
25.5 x 25.5

Cut-out and Keep Series

2008
Cut out paper

Good Grief Herr Schulz!

2009
Digital print
84cm x 120cm

Linus the Joy

2009
playdoh and etched glass ball
8cm x 8cm x 13cm

Eleganza

2009
Ceramic, ribbon and cupboard doors

Fromance

2009
Ceramic, bunting and artist's own hair

Against the Grain

2009
cardboard and felt-tip pen
27cm x 27cm x 20cm

Balls

2009
Plastic door hook and wool

New Gift for Friedrich Froebel

2009
rug, record sleeves, mdf, gaffer tape and plastic tiles

Gerhard With a Vengeance

2009
Carpet-tile samples and lino

Can You Keep It Up All Night?

2009

This Is A Slide Of A Cat

2009
Digital print

MA installation view

2009

Astral Space Module

Cardboard, digital print, balsa wood and polystyrene

Do You Do Voodoo?

2009
Ceramic, feathers and chair part