Luke Kennedy

Palace Rose Garden

9 - 24 December 2021

An artist not interested in meticulous mimesis – these works are direct and instinctive responses to moments of transience.

Liverpool Street Gallery is delighted to present Luke Kennedy’s first solo exhibition Palace Rose Garden.

Kennedy’s new work explores stillness in a world without focus. These restrained compositions can be likened to meditations in an age bombarded with digital content and image saturation. Kennedy is captivated by the ephemeral, the fleeting, and the residual. He strives for provisionality, an acceptance of chance, risk, and the resultant imperfections. His hope is to translate something of the unpredictability of our human experience onto canvas. 

Kennedy cites his influences within the fields of street art, graffiti, expressionism, colour-field painting, and impressionism. Within the contemporary art world, he sees his cohort as the provisional painters and new casualists, who are both proponents of immediacy and randomness.