SUSTAINABLE ART
Featured Artist, Summer Exhibition 2022, Royal Academy of Arts
Sustainable art is art in harmony with the key principles of sustainability. That includes topics of ecology, social justice, non-violence and grassroots democracy. In recent years, Lukas gradually started shifting his focus on sustainability matters and issues and voicing his concerns and messages through artistic mediums. He has participated in projects and movements across the globe while working on his creative projects. His work which is being produced from recycled / environmentally friendly materials and printed with zero carbon emissions has been exhibited and showcased in many leading art institutions receiving the attention and appreciation it deserves.
Left Behind was selected out of 16 500 submitted artworks for the ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS SUMMER EXHIBITION 2022.
Digital Art Exhibition 2023, Social Impact Club, London Business School
PLASTIC HAPPINESS
Snowman Race, Bhutan and Enviromentalism
Rising concerns that so many activists become so negative in their approach, always hectoring and condemning, urged Lukas to bring beauty into the argument. In his series Plastic & Happiness, the images feature the beauty of plastic sparingly used alongside plastic waste due for recycling. It is an optimistic response to plastic pollution, awakening the realisation that we all can participate and make lifestyle changes which will have an impact on our imperilled world. The photographs were taken in Bhutan in 2022. During his visit, Lukas was moved by the lifestyle of the Bhutanese people and their commitment to happiness and sustainability. He got a chance to interview a Bhutanese runner and activist Tashi Chozom and gain a unique insight in the the culture of the beautiful country of Bhutan. Ever since, Lukas has been looking for opportunities to collaborate and share awareness about climate change through art and everyday activities - to demonstrate how creating and keeping new habits can greatly impact places, spaces and communities that will benefit and inspire others.
In November 2023, The UAL Sustainability Alumni Network recently held its second talk in the Sustainable Horizons series. The talks allow creative graduates from the University of the Arts London to share their knowledge on sustainability within their field. Lukas has been invited to share his journey into climate awareness in art, sharing with us his most recent artistic projects, which are 100% sustainable.
COLLABORATION WITH @areyoumad.co
In his passionate exploration of sustainable creative practises, Lukas partnered with James Suckling from @areyoumad.co, to create picture frames made of recycled plastic waste for his photographers taken in Bhutan. Waste material has been collected from businesses in Soho and formed into beautiful marble-like structures. Sleek, modern, contemporary cutting-edge frames for Lukas´s photographs and other artworks focused on specific areas of recycling, slow fashion, upcycling, reinventing and creating sustainable materials out of plastic as well as other forms of waste - and making these into beautiful and unique art forms or products.
Step by step - the journey of my frames: from the street waste to the game-changing education recycling space in Soho London, onto my dinner table for assembly and finally on the walls of the Chelsea Arts Club.
REDEMPTION
A collage of four original hand modified photographs on a recycled gold tray is connecting the spiritual - prayer flags, and the physical - recycle bins. The flags point to the sublime, the bins to what we reject. The 75x50cm collage titled 'Redemption' is framed in a mindfully sourced cherrywood.
Lukas took inspiration from the four pillars of Gross National Happiness in Bhutan.
1. Sustainable and Equitable Socio-Economic Development
2. Preservation and Promotion of Culture
3. Environmental Conservation
4. Good Governance
LOOKING TO BE SAFE AND SOUND
Lukas´s “Looking to be Safe and Sound” visual emergency guide is inspired by the critical situation of the Covid pandemic and drew on PROTECT AND SURVIVE: a booklet prepared for the Home Office by the Central Office of Information in 1980, aimed at the general public describing "how to make your home and your family as safe as possible under nuclear attack."
Lukas worked in the challenging context of war and instability. Lukas has always been looking for places and spaces where he had felt safe and sound. He styled, make-uped and photographed his fashion model to fit his own safe and familiar space, as recommended by the emergency booklet.
Featured in the CURATED PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP SHOW at the Chelsea Arts Club.
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