Biography

Lukas Leisinger (b. 2001) is currently studying at the University of the Arts London, Chelsea College of Art and Design for BA (Hons) Fine Art. His skills are self taught from reading about artists and their techniques.

Exhibitions

UAL Chelsea College of Art and Design Degree Show, London, UK, 2024

XHIBIT, Group Exhibition, Truman Brewery, London, UK, 2023

The Other Side, Group Exhibition, Islington Studios, London, UK, 2022​

Deconstruction, Group Exhibition, Safehouse 1, London, UK, 2022​

Art in Offices - Student Landmark Prize, Group Exhibition, The Lighthouse, London, UK, 2022​

Selective Perspective, Group Exhibition, Trafalgar Square, London, UK, 2022

​Foundation Degree Show, Group Exhibition, NKC, Kent, UK, 2021

Collections

Private Collection, London, UK

Private Collection, Bath, UK

Private Collection, Tunbridge Wells, UK

Private Collection, Maryland, USA

Private Collection, Michigan, USA

Private Collection, Stockholm, Sweden

Awards

UK Student Landmark Prize - Nominated

Artist Statement:

My work explores the relationship between memory and image. The question, “Is this an image of a memory or a memory of an image?”, is central to my practice, as I explore how images can both corrupt and preserve memories.

The process of creating my paintings is repetitive. I apply paint, then scrape it off, only to reapply it again. This cyclical method allows me to relive the moments I am transforming into images repeatedly. This repetition helps capture the essence of someone’s reverie, infusing my paintings with a sense of time that seems almost on the brink of being forgotten.

Photography and cinema play a significant role in my work, serving as both inspiration and source material. These mediums, deeply tied to the concept of time, influence my paintings and bring forth the question of whether image informs memory or memory informs the image.

Painting best represents this metamorphosis of experience becoming image. In my work, image has become the memorialisation of a moment gone and my painting techniques capture that very haunting idea of the image being a spiritual entity of an experience.

Through this intricate process, my paintings seek to capture the delicate balance between image and memory, inviting viewers to ponder the nature of their own recollections and the images that shape them.