C.V.

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(updated December 2025)
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(updated December 2025)
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 – Ongoing
Sydney, Australia
https://nas.edu.au/


LAILA Gallery  
Gallery Team Member
Oct. 2025 – Ongoing
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 Fundraiser*
Offsite Marrickville location
Sydney, Australia
TBA 2026

To Start Over Again...
Slip City Gallery
Sydney, Australia
2025

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* w/ Max Perkins
Rofe Street
Sydney, Australia
2024

Pain-ting (MFA1 Painting Department Show)
NAS Library Stairwell Gallery
Sydney, Australia
2024

Film Studies*
NAS Library Stairwell Gallery
Sydney, Australia
2024

BFA Grad Show 2023
NAS Gallery
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


ReferralsHany Armanious
Mentor & Friend
Head of Sculpture Department, National Art School
hany.armanious@nas.edu.au

Stephen Little
MFA Supervisor
Head of Painting Department, National Art School
stephen.little@nas.edu.au

Mason Kimber
MFA Supervisor
Painting Department, National Art School
mason.kimber@nas.edu.au

Imogen Wilson
Manager
Director, Mimi Casting / Studio Mimi
studio@studiomimi.ltd







Last Updated 24.10.31
LUKE MARTINS



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Luke Martins is an artist, designer, and facilitator of creative projects and events. He founded Rofe Street Gallery in 2023. As a MFA Alumni graduating from National Art School, Sydney in 2025, his practice generally leans toward sculpture and installation, though conceptually and materially 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 explore 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 work is about being inspired and as artists what we do with the materials of inspiration to develop our unique “style”.

Outside of the contemporary gallery space, he often works on music and fashion related projects, such as; styling,  zine publication, music video, graphic design, and clothing design.


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Autotune
 2024
mixed media in frame

Left image photographed by Stella Sunday With autotune we have the ability to bend, mask and completely transform our creative idenity.

As artists we have the freedom to do the same yet many are dictated by superficial self-identifiers in their creative process.



Divine Retribution
2024
Rivet Gold, Guiness Extra Stout
400cm x 300cm

Water Feature (Take the Piss)
2024
Beer, bench, bins, bin bags, boxes, ice
390cm x 83cm x 313cm
Featured in Severance Package, duo show with Max Perkins at Rofe Street. We collaborated on every work here.

Our aim was to turn the opening experience in on itself.  Typical aspects of an opening serve as the work while more traditional forms remain in a space inaccessible to the public



Wishing Well
 2024

Ceramic statue, metal grate, cigarettes, ash
88cm x 120cm x 42cm
Featured in Severance Package, duo show with Max Perkins at Rofe Street. We collaborated on every work here.

Our aim was to turn the opening experience in on itself.  Typical aspects of an opening serve as the work while more traditional forms remain in a space inaccessible to the public



Severance Package
 2024

MDF, canvas, permanent marker, timber, plinth
227cm x 190cm x 210cm
Featured in Severance Package, duo show with Max Perkins at Rofe Street. We collaborated on every work here.

Our aim was to turn the opening experience in on itself.  Typical aspects of an opening serve as the work while more traditional forms remain in a space inaccessible to the public



Title
2024

Screws, graphite, gallery
320cm x 211cm Featured in Severance Package, duo show with Max Perkins at Rofe Street. We collaborated on every work here.

Our aim was to turn the opening experience in on itself.  Typical aspects of an opening serve as the work while more traditional forms remain in a space inaccessible to the public




Sometimes Beneath the Surface is More Surface
 2024

dremel on sandstone
30cm x 60cm x 10cm This work is about artistic style and identity, as artists are we anything more than our signature?

This work responds directly to the institutional standards of commercial practices today.



Choose Your Own Adventure
 2024

mixed media installation
dimensions variable This work is about artistic style and identity, as artists are we anything more than our signature?

This work responds directly to the institutional standards of commercial practices today.



Before and After Services
 2024

graphical chart in frame, acrylic, wood, glass
90cm x 66cm Remade from the original found in the Church of Scientology building in Sydney

This chart promises success before and after coming into contact with an self-help/religious institution.





Magic Blue Balls
 2024

crystal balls, velvet, varnish, wood
Was thinking about how when going to a psychic you leave feeling amazing about all the incredible things yet to come.

Reality sets in as you descend from the heaven of potentials, back unpon returning to your everyday life, left blue balls.

Also the idea of looking to testicles to find your future is quite funny to me.



Flag
 2024

Fabric dye, pins, aluminium on canvas
100cm x 170cm MFA1 work


Signed Copy (You Can)
 2024

signature on self-help book
123 pages I didn’t write this book, I just signed it. You Can get yourself a copy on amazon. Someone with the same name as me published this book, I just bought it and signed it.




Sometimes Beneath the Surface is More Surface
 2024

National Art School
Sydney Australia
Presented in my studio during my first year of Masters

MFA1 midyear review



Absolution
 2024

bleach in silver teapot MFA1 work


As You Are (Premature)
 2024

oil and plaster on canvas
140cm x 170cm MFA1 work


5 Wishes
2024

plastic bottles, bleach
MFA1 work




Untitled
 2024

oil and acrylic on canvas
140cm x 70cm MFA1 work