GOLDEN GOOSE
x LUKE CHISWELL
Melbourne Design Week
Pop
Up
At The Above
Destruction
And
Resurrection.
Influenced by dyslexia, synaesthesia, skateboarding and nature, language serves as a foundation to Luke’s work.
A gestural vocabulary in which words and marks are infused with energy, meaning and mis-meaning.

LUKE CHISWELL

SCULPTURES, PAINTINGS & SCREENPRINTS
b. New South Wales, Australia
Lives and works between Los Angeles and his studio in rural NSW, Australia.
Featured in Hypebeast and Vogue UK, painter, sculptor and printmaker Luke Chiswell explores how the continual use of everyday objects--like skateboards and hotel stationery -- can hold a record of aspiration, error and accomplishment.
A performative practice between intended composition and deliberate chance. Text moves from legible to abstract evoking an intuitive response to mark making.

The use of scale and crop are crucial and phrases of interest never fully disclosed, while screen prints use continuous patterns reflecting the repetitive nature of language.

Collected objects from around Topanga and Downtown LA serve as a base for collage captured relics through aluminium sand casting.
"Each work tells it's own story through unique markings and scratches, their own destruction giving rise to a moment, to a memory, to an achievement."

TROPHIES

Reshaping a recognisable objects profile, Chiswell allows to the resulting “Trophy” to become a genuie account – a history of aspiration – marking the delicate dance between acheivement and breaking point. When is is done, when the board is finished, when it gets to this point, it is a Trophy.
A Brand Experience.
A Store.
An Exhibition.
A Dinner Party.
A Cafe.
A Golden Goose Design Week
Pop-Up Concept
At The Above.

23.05 – 02.06.23
AT THE ABOVE
198 Gertrude Street Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia
We create experiences that blur the boundaries between art, design and technology – the physical and non-physical, from inception to execution.
We research, redefine and support culture through action. Our gallery and concept space, At The Above, is an incubator for creative communities to redefine contemporary culture. A blank canvas where Fashion, Art and Design converge to play out through lived experiences and authentic moments.