Luke Willis Thompson, Cemetery of Uniforms and Liveries (Graeme) (still) 2016. Commissioned by IMA Brisbane, supported by Creative New Zealand. Produced in association with Chisenhale Gallery and Create, London.

Luke Willis Thompson

Create Residency
Chisenhale Gallery Create Residency
February 2016 – June 2017

Luke Willis Thompson is the Chisenhale Gallery Create Residency artist for 2016 -17. The residency is part of Chisenhale’s Offsite programme and is produced in partnership with Create. For his residency, Thompson develops a new body of work which reflects on the production and distribution of images in the wake of traumatic events. The residency culminates in a major solo exhibition by Thompson at Chisenhale in June 2017.  

Luke Willis Thompson’s work takes place within specific social contexts, often challenging traditional forms of exhibition making. By choosing sites of historical, political or social trauma, Thompson raises pertinent issues around race, class and social inequality within his work.  

Luke Willis Thompson (b. 1988 Auckland) lives and works in London. Selected solo exhibitions include Sucu Mate/Born Dead, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland (2016); and Misadventure, IMA, Brisbane (2016). Recent and forthcoming group exhibitions include the São Paulo Biennale and Montréal Biennale (both 2016), Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Museum, Queensland and Surround Audience, New Museum Triennial, New York (both 2015). 

Luke Willis Thompson's Chisenhale Gallery Create Residency (2016 - 17) is produced in partnership with Create.

With the support of Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.

Chisenhale Gallery Create Residency is an 18-month artists’ residency in collaboration with Create, a creative agency delivering projects in east London, which involve artists and local communities. The partnership with Create reflects our mutual interests in commissioning artists to engage with east London’s communities and its varied social and cultural contexts.   

Yuri Pattison was Chisenhale Gallery Create Residency artist for 2014 -16. Throughout his residency, Pattison worked within east London’s Tech City, exploring ideas of transparency to create a new body of sculptural and video work. For more information on Pattison’s residency please click here.  

For the inaugural Chisenhale Gallery Create Residency (2012-14), artist Edward Thomasson produced a new play and a film in collaboration with a group of non-professional performers from east London. For more information on Thomasson’s residency please click here.