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Luke Bayshco
Luke Bayshco, Charlie Chaplin 2009, graphite on paper.
Luke Bayshco works out of Studio Artes in Sydney alongside artists Lynda Strong and Greg Sindel, who are also exhibited in AART.BOXX this year. He has been attending the Studio for 3 years. He has been actively creating work since an early age, and paints and draws at home, as well as at Studio Artes. At the studio he practices both the visual arts and performance.
Bayshco has a particular talent for drawing, as can be seen in the work exhibited. He draws ambidextrously and changes between the left and right hand depending on which area of a picture he is working on. He also occasionally works by holding multiple pencils in a single hand.
The subject matter that he deals with varies widely, however portraiture, both human and animal, is a particular strength. His work Elephant captures the movement and form of an elephant’s body in such a way that it is invested with a sense of dynamism beyond that of much other animal portraiture. During the drawing process he often drifts in and out of his own world, resulting in portraits consisting of numerous and often irregular pencil strokes, as seen in the work Charlie Chaplin.
Within his broader body of work, a particular recurring motif is that of a person who Bayshco refers to as the “Red Tie Man”. Despite the regularity with which this figure occurs in his work, Bayshco has never explained its significance or whether or not it is someone he knows or has known in the past.
Luke Bayshco, Elephant 2009, graphite on paper.