SPACE 1: LUKE RION

Exhibition Dates : 18 November - 30 November 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 19 November 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Luke Rion is a New Zealand born artist, who is currently based out of Melbourne, Australia. For the last decade his practice has explored figurative and still life subjects, with a particular focus on our nostalgic relationship with objects and the negative space which they inhabit. Rion’s work explores the ephemeral rituals society has with technology and how something so vivid and so relevant in youth fades and eventually becomes discarded and lost.

Wave Cave drifts through the fragile terrain of memory, where once-bright moments dim and dissolve like echoes in a deepening cave. At the threshold, waves crash with relentless force, marking the passage of time. Each painting moves further inward, seeking refuge in shadow, where memories loop in soft, serene light. Childhood relics and fading symbols—an abandoned game, a crab clutching fragments of identity cling to the shifting landscape. As memory unfolds, the cave transforms into a lush forest, tangled and layered. Scale begins to slip, edges blur, and reality gives way to reverie.