My name is Luke Austin-Heywood. I was born Hammersmith, London in 1976. I am thirty years old and have lived in Cornwall and Devon since the age of three. I gained a 2.1 degree on leaving college in Exeter and have since been working as a painter exhibiting through involvement in a number of art groups in the South West. In 2004 I completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at Falmouth. My interest’s covers all forms of art and illustration particularly comic book work.

The set of paintings is about modern music, Japanesism and punk surrealism. The former is primarily about aesthetics, a fusing of modernist patterning, neo pop and graffiti as parallels for music through painted form.

The dominant aesthetic stream is fused further towards a neo-pop identity. This is a Brit-art neo-pop strain, one which pushes further into post-modern ideas, identity fragmentation and the fusing of low and high art ideals.

A section of the paintings absorb advertising, as designs to be replicated for aesthetic value and as a concept vehicle utilising the play of ideas.