A distinct and defining aspect of Luke’s work involves being a companion in practice* to other artists. Listening, carefully, to their unique lived experiences, perspectives, practice roots and influences. Noticing how these inform the nature of each enquiry, their approach, their craft, process and emergent logics and patterns when making work.
“As a queer, dyspraxic person I’ve needed to work to better understand how I am and have been shaped. How that shapes the way I work, the ways I need to work, the work that I make - its form and feeling - and how that work might then meet with the world. As such, I find myself continuously curious as to how this plays out in the practice of others.”
Over time he has come to describe this area of his work as Thinking Through Practice. Spending time as a dramaturg, artist advisor, peer mentor and facilitator who witnesses and/or hosts processes with and for other artists, focussing in on ‘the how, the way, the why’ of making - as well as the what. Working with folx to attend particularly to the wider dramaturgies of their practice.
Committed to artist and across art-form development Luke seeks to be in dialogue with a multiplicity of people and places, working in and from very different contexts. He designs bespoke exploratory processes and spaces for groups and individuals, in person and online, as well as contributing to and advising for a wide range of residencies, workshops, symposia and curated conversations.
*Long term collaborator and Consultant Producer Vicky Rutherford O’Leary first described their working relationship as being ‘companions in practice’. This way of thinking about how we are and what we do together has since become central to all of the work we do.