Fuller’s practice engages with our natural and industrial landscapes in order to question our current existence and understanding. His interest with industry and landscape stems from his family connections in South Wales, where for generations his forbearers worked in the Steel and Coal Mining industries, specifically Port Talbot where the Steel Works collides with the sea on one side and mountains on the other. The work he produces is underpinned by his first-hand experiences in landscape and within industrial settings. These encounters have created a strong sense of place in his practice, to fuel his fascination of abstraction, construction and disruption of form.
Using clay as a vehicle, he expresses his perceptions of landscape and the ambiguous relationship between humans and the natural environment. The works which are forged are records of Fuller's experience with clay and are examples of the immediacy the material offers. He manifests his thoughts and concerns through processes of construction and the physicality of making.
Luke Fuller graduated in Ceramics & Glass from the Royal College of Art in 2020, being awarded the Charlotte Fraser Scholarship for outstanding work. Since completing his BA in 3D Design & Craft at the University of Brighton in 2018, he has won several prestigious prizes and bursaries, including New Designer of the Year at the Business Design Centre, 2018; and the Nagoya University of Art, Grand Prize, 2018. Fuller has shown work internationally at various exhibitions including 'The Power of Material: From Virtual to Physical', The Design Museum, London, UK; FOG Design+Art in San Francisco, US; PAD London, UK; British Ceramics Biennial, UK. His work features in notable private and public collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK.
Education
2020 MA Royal College of Art, Ceramics & Glass
2018 BA (Hons) University of Brighton, 3D Design & Craft, First Class Honours
Public Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, UK
Exhibitions
Solo
2021
Terra-form, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
Group
2024
Design Miami, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, Miami
PAD London, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
Shades of Light, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, New York
Earthly Bodies, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
The Nature of Things, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
FOG Design+Art, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, San Francisco
2023
Collections, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
Eye of The Collector, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
TEFAF Maastricht, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Maastricht
FOG Design+Art, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, San Francisco
2022
Design Miami, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, Miami
At the coalface: Design in a post-carbon age, CID: The Grand-Hornu, Belgium
PAD London, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
The New Guard, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris
Masterpiece London, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
Materials of the Earth, Sokyo Gallery, Lisbon
Next of Europe, Homo Faber, Venice
COLLECT, Somerset House, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
FOG Design+Art, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, San Francisco
2021
The Power of Material: From Virtual to Physical, The Design Museum, London
Outside In, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
2020
Tectonics, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
FOG Design+Art, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, San Francisco
2019
PAD London, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
Fresh, British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent
Masterpiece London, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
COLLECT, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, London
2018
PAD London, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
Designblok, Prague International Design Festival, Prague
Craeftigue, London Design Fair, London
TRANS-FORM, Mint Gallery, London
Awards
2018
Business Design Centre New Designer of the Year Award
Craeftiga Finalist in Association with Hole & Corner
Franz Rising Star Scholarship
Nagoya University of Art, Japan, Grand Prize
Charlotte Fraser Scholarship
The Anna Maria Desogus Memorial Graduate Award
The Richard Seager Bursary Award
2017
The Anna Maria Desogus Memorial 2nd Year Award
Residencies
2023
Shiro Oni Studio, Japan (funded by The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation)