Luke Newton

Luke Newtona native of Colne, an industrial town in northern England, has developed a body of work that is both incisive and accessible. Trained at the prestigious Central Saint Martins in London, he then chose France to pursue his artistic career. He now lives and works between Roubaix and Paris.

Through the exhibition A Consumer ProductNewton takes a critical look at the excesses of our society, which he tackles with a humor subtly tinged with British culture.

His work covers a wide range of media: collage, sculpture, painting... The artist deliberately blurs the boundaries between disciplines. He is particularly fond of assembling everyday materials, often considered to have no aesthetic value, and transforming them into striking objects.

Food packaging is transformed into skulls, the curve of a heart reveals a sharp blade, while colored pencils are assembled into firearms. Newton plays with contrasts and hijacks familiar forms to create a world that is playful, disconcerting and deeply reflective. The viewer is invited to enter a stimulating visual game, in which the symbols of everyday life are questioned.

The works, presented in an uncluttered aesthetic, seduce with their impeccable, almost industrial finishes. Their smooth, repetitive appearance evokes mass production lines, reinforced by the serial reproduction of certain pieces, punctuated by subtle variations.

Behind their pop, manufactured appearance, Luke Newton's creations reveal a real conceptual depth. Familiar at first glance, the more we observe them, the more they reveal a detour of their symbolic value. The illusion of the ordinary fades to reveal a disturbing paradox.