• Source: Lucas Grogan

Lucas Grogan (born 1984) is an Australian artist born in Cooma, New South Wales. Grogan is a painter and textile artist currently based in Melbourne, Australia. Grogan exhibited overseas and Australia since 2005.




Art career


Grogan grew up in Maitland, and consider Maitland his hometown. Grogan left Maitland and studied art at Newcastle University in 2003 to base himself in Melbourne. According to Grogan, he "failed spectacularly", but learned on the job about life as a practising artist via volunteer and paid jobs at artist-run and commercial galleries in Newcastle and Sydney as gallery attendant to exhibition installer and floor manager. His career took off in 2008 when he was featured in Biennale of Sydney at the age of 24 with his two toned paintings and embroidered textiles.
In 2020, he had a retrospective of his work in Maitland Regional Art Gallery. His style is almost always blue and white colours in his paintings and textile art. Grogan's inspirations and influences includes islamic motifs and patterns in his geometric line-work to traditional Aboriginal paintings. Grogan also used text in his art, using sarcastic quotes that jump out at the viewer which can be famous, overheard and everyday sayings. Many of the phrases are from the style of text messaging. On his use of texts, Grogan said, “They are sarcastic, but at times they’re also painfully honest and sincere.” All his texts and intricately detailed patterns are painted freehand.
Grogan has shown in Australia and internationally such as Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Auckland, Rarotonga and London. Grogan received Red Gate residency in Beijing, and completed major murals commissions in Bali, Newcastle, Melbourne and Perth.
His works are in private and public collections across Australia, including National Gallery of Australia, Newcastle Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Westfarmers, Deutsche Bank, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, and Ararat Gallery.




= Residencies

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2013: Artist in Residence, Red Gate, Beijing, China
2013: Harvested Workshop Residency, Melbourne, Australia
2012: Australian Tapestry Workshop Residency, Melbourne, Australia




= Selected solo exhibitions

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2023: Lucas Grogan: Cabinets, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2021: Lucas Grogan: A Short Sharp Thread, Martin Browne Contemporary, Paddington, Sydney, Australia
2020: Long Story Short, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
2020: Lucas Grogan: Last Last Night, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2019: Lucas Grogan: Groundbreakingflorals, Martin Browne Contemporary, Paddington, Sydney, Australia
2018: Lucas Grogan: Bedrooms, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore
2017: Lucas Grogan: Skies, Turner Galleries, Northbridge, Australia
2017: Lucas Grogan: Thought & Prayers, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, Australia




= Selected group exhibitions

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2024: Lucas Grogan and Luke Thurgate: Heralds, Bergman Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2024: Aotearoa Art Fair, Bergman Gallery, Viaduct Events Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
2023: Holy SMokes, Backwoods Gallery, Collingwood, Australia
2023: Pride & Prejudice, Part 1, Bergman Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2018: The Big Blue, Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
2017: Slipstitch, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2017: Sydney Contemporary, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2017: Art Basel Hong Kong, Yavuz Gallery, Hong Kong
2016: Antipodean, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore
2014: These Works, Salon Zücher, Paris, France
2014: Melbourne Art Fair, Gallerysmith, Melbourne, Australia
2013: Sacred/Iconic, Garis & Hahn, New York, United States of America
2013: Wonderworks, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2005: Yellow Socks Brigade (with Luke Thurgate), Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle, Australia




References

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• Owen Wilson
• Ronny Cox
• Daftar penerima Salib Victoria
• Lucas Grogan
• Clare Grogan
• Bergman Gallery
• Luke Thurgate
• Hallelujah! I'm a Bum (album)
• Nan
• I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
• List of victims of the September 11 attacks (A–G)
• Tony Eason
• Ronny Cox