Ulster Museum presents Northern Rhythm. The Art of John Luke (1906 –1975), an exhibition on view Sunday 10 February 2013.
John Luke The Rehearsal (1950) © The Estate of John Luke. Click image to enlarge.
Luke was a painter, muralist, printmaker and sculptor, who began his life working in the city’s shipyards. A modernist who was dedicated to craftmanship, Luke’s artwork is characterised by a unique sense of ‘rhythm’ he found in the Northern Ireland.
This exhibition, curated by Joseph McBrinn of the University of Ulster, is the most comprehensive retrospective and critical assessment of John Luke’s work ever mounted and will include examples of Luke’s most important portraits, landscapes, drawings, designs for murals and sculptures, as well as examples of his woodcut and linocut prints.
Ulster Museum
Botanic Gardens,
Belfast, BT9 5AB
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