2023 — LUKE MARTINS

C.V.

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(updated June 2026)

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(updated June 2026)

Education

Master of Fine Art
National Art School
Sydney, Australia
2025

Bachelor of Fine Art
National Art School
Sydney, Australia
2025

Employment

National Art School
Facilities & Events Team Member
Dec. 2022 – May. 2026
Sydney, Australia
https://nas.edu.au/

LAILA Gallery
Gallery Team Member
Oct. 2025 – May. 2026
Sydney, Australia
https://www.laila.sydney/

Rofe Street Gallery & Studio
Founder & Director
Nov. 2023 – Nov. 2024
Sydney, Australia
https://www.instagram.com/rofestreet/

Marisa Suen Stylist
Stylist Assistant
Feb. 2023 – Aug. 2025
Sydney, Australia
https://www.marisasuen.com/

Notable Exhibitions

* featured + curated + organised

Freestyle*
Offsite Marrickville location
Sydney, Australia
2026

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By Jordan Dempsey
Worldwide
2026

Schmick Contemporary 2026 Fundraiser
Schmick Contemporary
Sydney, Australia
2026

MFA PostGrad Show 2025
National Art School
Sydney, Australia
2025

Money Will Be My Family (In Loving Memory of Rich Homie Quan)*
Van Q Bank Vault
Woollongong, Australia
2025

Severance Package* (with Max Perkins)
Rofe Street
Sydney, Australia
2024

Film Studies*
NAS Library Stairwell Gallery
Sydney, Australia
2024

BFA Grad Show 2023
National Art School
Sydney, Australia
2023

Hooray for Hollywood
Hollywood Hotel
Sydney, Australia
2023

Resonance*
Goodspace Gallery
Sydney, Australia
2023

Press/Publications

Mesmerised
by Luke Martins
2025

ASSINATURA
by Luke Martins
2025

Money will be my family (in loving memory of Rich Homie Quan)
by Axel Gerber, Kenya Peterson
2025

Referrals

Hany Armanious
Mentor & Friend
Artist & former Head of Sculpture Department, National Art School

Stephen Little
MFA Supervisor
Former head of Painting Department, National Art School

Mason Kimber
MFA Supervisor
Painting Department, National Art School

Imogen Wilson
Manager
Director, Mimi Casting / Studio Mimi / Shadow Agency

Last Updated 24.10.31

LUKE MARTINS

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Luke Martins is an artist, designer, and creative producer from Sydney, Australia. He founded and was the director of Rofe Street Gallery in 2023. An MFA graduate of the National Art School in 2025, his practice often leans toward site-specific installation and readymade sculpture, though conceptually and materially it is not tied to any one medium.

His medium-free creative practice critiques and explores the methods in which we collaborate and fraternise with institutions to commodify identity — culturally, spiritually, and artistically. He explores ideas of global citizenship, the new age self-help industrial complex, and the ways we share knowledge, experiences and inspiration with one another. His MFA research focused on inspiration itself, more specifically, as artists how we transform materials of inspiration to develop our unique “style”.

Outside the contemporary gallery space, he has a strong inclination toward creative production, regularly bringing together artists to collaborate on a variety of projects. These include exhibitions in unconventional spaces such as a bank vault or supermarket car park; styling, creative direction, and modelling for editorial and commercial shoots with international brands across Sydney, Tokyo, and London; and publication and design projects developed in collaboration with a New York fashion archive and musicians across Australia and the United States.

He often works simultaneously across multiple projects and disciplines. Collaboration remains central to his practice, driven by a commitment to creating meaningful work with other creative individuals. It’s his passion.

ARTIST C.V.
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ARTWORK ARCHIVE

2025 2024 2023 2022

Bloomer
2023

silver on silver on silver on silver on silver on silver on silver
41 x 41cm

Whisper
2023

oil on canvas
140 x 120cm