Luke Thurgate, Dobell Finalist, Live Drawing Demonstration at BRAG

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

Observe Luke Thurgate, Dobell Drawing Prize #23 Finalist, recreating his finalist work at the gallery.

Dobell Drawing Prize #23 finalist Luke Thurgate will be recreating his finalist work I believe in you, 2023, at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery on the opening weekend of the touring prize in Bathurst.Visitors are invited to pull up a stool and watch Thurgate’s drawing come to life. By observation, learn incredible skills from this modern-day master!Thurgate will be drawing on the opening night, Saturday 2 September 10am-2pm and Sunday 3 September 10am-2pm.Plus, on Sunday 3 September, observe Thurgate and try your hand at drawing in our regular Sunday Sketch Session, 10:30am-12:30pm! Materials supplied, all abilities and ages, all welcome.<aside>Please note: These are not facilitated events or workshops. Refer to bathurstart.com.au for all workshops and events.</aside>

A﻿bout the ArtistLuke Thurgate is an artist living and working on Gadigal Land (Sydney). He teaches drawing and painting at the National Art School, where he graduated in 2021 with a Master of Fine Art. Luke’s extensive exhibition history includes recent projects at Grafton Regional Gallery, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Backwoods Gallery, Burra Regional Art Gallery, National Art School and Adelaide Central Gallery. He was a finalist in the 2023 Dobell Drawing Prize, the 2022 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, and the 2020 Tom Bass Figurative Sculpture Prize.Luke’s multi-disciplinary studio practice explores the construction and deconstruction of ‘identity’ in relation to sexuality, romance and power. Working across drawing, painting, sculpture and performance, his works appropriates the signifying capacity of the western canon, referencing processes, materials and imagery from Renaissance and Baroque art making. Luke’s current work uses the monster as a surrogate ’other’ to explore tensions between parody, sincerity, menace, pathos, transgression, and vulnerability. Informed by a range of sources, including popular culture, and Catholic iconography, his practice transcribes the western canon through a lens of queer aesthetics and subjectivity.<aside>Image: Installation view, Luke Thurgate, Adore you, 2023, The Drawing Gallery, National Art School. Photo by Tim Connolly.</aside>

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