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Selected Exhibitions
2025 ‘ Habitat ‘, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2024 ‘Joyful ‘, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2024 ‘ ARTS@60 ‘, Vallum Gallery Institute of the Arts, University of Cumbria, Carlisle
2023 ‘ Cornucopia ‘. Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2022 ‘ Wigton Open Exhibition ‘, Market Hall, Wigton
2021 ‘ CUPOLA 30 ‘, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2020 ‘ Ubuntu , Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2019 ‘ Symbol ‘, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2019 ‘ The Fronteer Open ‘, 35 Chapel Walk Gallery, Sheffield
2018 ‘ HUMAN ‘, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2018 Stand 420, Manchester Art Fair, Manchester
2017 ‘Kunsthuis Summer Exhibition’, Kunsthuis, Crayke, Yorkshire
2017 ‘ From the box file : Uncovering the archive ’, Bloc Projects
2017 ‘COLOUR CODE’, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2016 ‘ To Please a Few ‘, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2015 ‘ Presence ‘, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2014 ‘ The Other Art Fair ‘, London
2014 ‘ CONNECTIONS ’, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2013 ‘ The 22nd Christmas Exhibition ‘, Cupola Contemporary Art
2013 ‘ Creekside Open 2013 ‘ Selected by Paul Noble, A.P.T Gallery, London
2012 ‘ Revelation ‘, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2012 ‘ Gallery Artists ‘, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
2011 ‘ Cupola Christmas Exhibition ‘, Cupola Contemporary Art
2011 (Solo)’ Paintings by David Lucas ‘. The Circle, Sheffield
SELECTED PRESS AND MEDIA
2018 ‘ Diverse Creativity is what makes us HUMAN ‘, Sheffield Telegraph. Ian Soutar
2018 ‘ Lucas Returns to Manchester Art Fair ‘, Sheffield Telegraph. Oct 10. Ian Soutar
2017 ‘ One Hundred Artists from Eleven Countries Unite for Kunsthuis Gallery Show ‘
York Press. Charles Hutchinson
2017 ‘ Colour Matches Contour and Shape ‘, Sheffield Telegraph, July 20, Ian Soutar
2017 ‘ Artist’s Who Show Their Fascination With Colour ‘, Sheffield Telegraph, June 8, Ian Soutar
2016 ‘ Whole Range of Art for Christmas ‘, Sheffield Telegraph, Dec 22, Ian Soutar
2015 ‘ Will Going Public Have an Effect ‘, Sheffield Telegraph, Dec 24 Ian Soutar
2014 ‘ Sheffield Artist’s Christmas Message ‘, Sheffield Telegraph, Dec11, Ian Soutar
2011 ‘ Cupola Trips the Light Fantastic ‘, Sheffield Telegraph, Oct 6, Ian Soutar
COLLECTIONS
Sir Bob & Ann Kerslake, Wolfgang Buttress, Rita Britten, Sheffield University, Oulsnam Design, Private Collections World Wide
David Lucas
Painter
Biography:
David Lucas lives and works in Sheffield
BA(honours) degree in Fine Art, Painting in 1987
Throughout a professional career beginning in the 1980’s David Lucas has exhibited widely in public and private galleries, art fairs and ‘alternative’ exhibition spaces. His work has been met with critical acclaim and is held in many collections world wide. He has been successful in achieving a number of awards including a major grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in recognition of his achievements and high calibre as an artist.
A broad interest in the natural world, astrophysics and philosophy has inspired his outlook and creative process. Recent bodies of painting have explored themes around skies, sea, land, horizons, rainbows, space, light and shadow. Lucas’s visual language involves expressive painterly abstraction, using intense colour, contour and shape.
He attempts to unravel the experience of the moment from both external and internal points of view. His creative process incorporates a superstructure and the accidental potential within it. The tension between controlling the image and allowing chance to play its part is essentially the subject and source of power in the work.
Strong connections with the counties of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with their extensive areas of lakes and mountains, Pennine moorland and dramatic coastlines have informed and influenced the artist’s inner mental landscape. The subtle light, tone and character finds its way into the paintings.
The latest body of painting has seen the artist return to his roots and early inspiration, the landscape of north Cumbria with the Solway plain looking across the Solway firth to the lowland fells of south west Scotland on one side, and the northern fells of the Lake District on the other. A deep rooted relationship with this landscape, its unique character and quality of light, western skies and striking sunsets being instrumental in forming his artistic outlook. Emerging out of the ‘Shaft of Light series’ the ‘Solway’ series has sought to reconnect with a landscape somewhat overshadowed by the Lake District National Park.