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![Freshwater]( "Freshwater")
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![Pilatus]( "Pilatus")
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![A Duck's Wake]( "A Duck's Wake")
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![Haagse Bos in Spring 2023]( "Haagse Bos in Spring 2023")
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![Riverbed I]( "Riverbed I")
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![Rustling Meerkoet]( "Rustling Meerkoet")
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![Ripples]( "Ripples")
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![Have you been to the Veluwe??]( "Have you been to the Veluwe??")
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![When you Mess with the Bull]( "When you Mess with the Bull")
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![Whirlpool]( "Whirlpool")
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![Hands Across the Water]( "Hands Across the Water")
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![Hemlock II]( "Hemlock II")
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![Footprint]( "Footprint")
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![Under Trout Lake]( "Under Trout Lake")
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![Boating by the Pier]( "Boating by the Pier")
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![Backyard Skiing]( "Backyard Skiing")
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![Bedrock: Island Camping]( "Bedrock: Island Camping")
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![Gummed Tubey]( "Gummed Tubey")
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![Coastguard Park]( "Coastguard Park")
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![menomena]( "menomena")
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![Ode to an Artist: Lynne]( "Ode to an Artist: Lynne")
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![Gentle Persuader]( "Gentle Persuader")
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Luke McCowan aims to celebrate the things around us that take time amidst our fast-moving lives.
Luke McCowan’s paintings explore his fascination with nature and how humans interact with it. Using techniques and tools that he has developed in his studio, McCowan recreates natural textures like rock, wood, and water ripples to ground his modern painting aesthetics to a transcendent awe of the seamless, effortless natural world we live in. In doing so, he hopes to remind people of the beauty that comes from things that take time and absence of human control to be fully realized in our relentlessly fast-moving lives.
Websites
A summary of my work which includes an artist statement and a CV
lukemccowan.com/Social media
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2021 - 2022Apprentice Masters Program Kunstpodium T
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2017 - 2021Fine Art Utrecht, HKU faculteit Kunst en Vormgeving diploma
exhibitions
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2023Things That Take Time TORCH Gallery Amsterdam, Netherlands www.torchgallery.com/exhibitions/things-that-take-time Group
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2023
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2023!000 Shape Shifting Chocolate Chips LAAK den Haag, Netherlands www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/14861-1000-shape-shifting-chocolate-chips Group
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2023Kunstuitleen Utrecht Collection show Stadschouwberg Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands Group
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2023
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2022
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2022
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2022
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2022Begane Grond Pennings Foundation Eindhoven, Netherlands Group show as part of Kunstpodium T, a Tilburg based apprentice master program that takes place over a full academic year. www.penningsfoundation.com/events/opening-kunstpodium-t-a-m-9-common-ground-floor Group
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2021
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2021
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2021
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2021
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2021Pannenkoeken én Appeltaart?! Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd Utrecht, Netherlands landhuisoudamelisweerd.nl/tentoonstelling-pannenkoek-en-appeltaart Group
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2021
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2020Staring Through Josilda da Conceicao Gallery Amsterdam, Netherlands www.josildadaconceicao.com/ Group
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2020
Projects
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2020
Studio Total Studio Total Utrecht, Netherlands www.instagram.com/studiototal.utrecht/ Co-coordinator of a series of 10 art-related events in Utrecht focused on connecting HKU alumni and current students.
Commissions
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2023Haagse Bos in Springtime 2023 Zug, Switzerland finished
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2023Pilatus Luzern, Switzerland finished
Sales/Works in collections
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2022Cheese Slicer Private Collection Stockholm, Zweden A painting of 70 x 130. oil and acrylic on canvas
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2022Mini Blues I Private collection den Haag, Nederland painting of 25 x 20cm. acrylic on canvas
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2022Mini Blues II private collection den Haag, Nederland painting of 25 x 20cm. acrylic on canvas
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2022Count the Years II private collection Minneapolis, Verenigde Staten painting of 25 x 20. acrylic on canvas
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2021Ode to an Artist: Lynne Kunstuitleen Utrecht Utrecht, Nederland A painting of 150 x 130cm in oil and acrylic
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2021Gummed Out Kunstuitleen Utrecht Utrecht, Nederland A painting of 50 x 60cm in oil and acrylic
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2021Freeze/Over_ Kunstuitleen Utrecht Utrecht, Nederland A painting of 60 x 45cm in oil and acrylic
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2020Birthday Boy Kunstuitleen Utrecht Utrecht, Nederland A painting of 145 x 105cm in oil and acrylic
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2020Grampy and Me: Part II Kunstuitleen Utrecht Utrecht, Nederland A painting of 195 x 145. oil on canvas
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2020Grampy and Me: Part I Private Collection Utrecht, Nederland A painting of 195 x 145. oil on canvas
Publications
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2022Eindexamenwerk 2021 Catalog BK informatie Utrecht, Netherlands www.bkinformatie.nl/beeld/eindexamenwerk-2021/
reviews
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2022'StartPoint' creates too high expectations for itself Newspaper NRC Amsterdam, Netherlands www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/06/14/startpoint-schept-te-hoge-verwachtingen-voor-zichzelf-a4133392 Article review about my group show in Arti et Amicitiae for the STARTPOINT prize.
Awards and grants
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2023Artist Start Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam (Mondriaan Fonds) Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2022SPOT Pro Invest Grant (sinds 2004) Stroom, Den Haag the Hague, Netherlands
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2021STARTPOINT. prize 2021 Startpoint Prize, Prague (CZ) Prague, Czech Republic I have recently been nominated for STARTPOINT. 2021 which is based out of Prague. A small group of newly graduated European art students is nominated for a residency program in Prague. The nominated artists are part of an exhibition in Prague in December 2021, and in Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam in March 2022
Secondary art-related activities
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2022 - 2022Studio Total