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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


ReferralsHany 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 and creative producer from Sydney, Australia. Currently based in Tokyo, his practice spans fine art, art direction, exhibition curation, editorial publishing, design, moving image, installation, and fashion. Each stream converges through a collaborative, conceptually driven, medium-free approach in which ideas, rather than disciplines, determine form. In 2023 he founded and directed Rofe Street Gallery, where he produced exhibitions and interdisciplinary projects across fine art, fashion, and music.

An MFA graduate of the National Art School in 2025, his practice often leans toward site-specific installation and explores the methods through which we collaborate and fraternise with institutions to commodify cultural, spiritual, and artistic identities. His MFA research investigated how artists transform the materials of inspiration to develop a unique visual language, while exploring ideas of global citizenship, the new age self-help industrial complex, and the ways we share knowledge, experiences, and inspiration with one another.

Outside the contemporary gallery space, he regularly works across creative production and art direction, bringing together artists, designers, musicians, and brands through a variety of collaborative projects. These include exhibitions in unconventional spaces such as a bank vault and 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.

His practice extends beyond making artwork. He establishes platforms and initiates collaborative projects that create space for artists to expand their practice. Whether it’s through exhibitions, publications, moving image, or commercial collaborations, he is driven by a commitment to producing meaningful work with his contemporaries.



ARTWORK ARCHIVE


2026    2025    2024    2023    2022


Worthy of Belief
2025

Madonna , flashlight, apparition
Dimensions variable From ‘Money Will be My Family (in loving memory of Rich Homie Quan)’ group exhibition at the bank vault beneath Van Q store in Wollongong.



Preaching to the Choir (Face The Music)
2025

Sony Hi-Fi stereo & Speaker system on wooden cabinet
100cm x 140cm x 40cm From ‘Money Will be My Family (in loving memory of Rich Homie Quan)’ group exhibition at the bank vault beneath Van Q store in Wollongong.



Colour Theory
 2025

Balloons on/off realtree mat

A part of my MFA2 midyear review.
 With this work I wanted to reduce category into simply colour. All the ways we categorise ourselves in order to identify ourselves, and inadvertently disguise ourselves from our true nature.

This work also pokes fun at painting, overconceptualised yet forsaken to decoration.




Family Command Centre
 2025
World map corkboard, family command centre, solar panel

Just Cause
 2025
Helmet cover, motorcycle helmet, globe soccer ball, wire, fence

Playing God
2025
Coat rack, microphone, raincoat, camouflage poncho, rosary beads, flag Part of my MFA2 midyear review



Beach Studio
 2025

studio contents in greenhouse, pasteup poster

Part of my MFA final Postgrad Show install located in the Rayner Hoff Space at the National Art School

 “This work materialises Martins's experience of his studio-based Master of Fine Arts degree over the past two years. A greenhouse—an incubator for growth and production—holds the remnants of discarded artworks and ideas. A stock-image sun provides a synthetic optimism for inspiration to germinate.” - Lucy Latella (curator)





May the Circle Be Unbroken
 2025

oil on twig, poster in frame

Part of my MFA final Postgrad Show studio install located in level 2 building 11 at the National Art School This work shows what inspired me literally. The inspiration of the work created itself.

My work this year was about being inspired and as artists what we do with materials of inspiration do develop our unique “style”. Particularly this work using imagery from Raf Simons ss04 collection, as my vehicle of inspiration.



Snowy Mountain
 2025

dremel on sandstone, back massager, camoflague netting, army snow poncho
Part of my MFA final Postgrad Show studio install located in level 2 building 11 at the National Art School

My work this year was about being inspired and as artists what we do with materials of inspiration do develop our unique “style”



Tudo Que Você Podia Ser
 2025

mixed media on coat rack
Part of my MFA final Postgrad Show studio install located in level 2 building 11 at the National Art School

My work this year was about being inspired and as artists what we do with materials of inspiration do develop our unique “style”



Nature’s Melody
 2025

automatic spinner, suncatcher, dreamcatcher
Part of my MFA final Postgrad Show studio install located in level 2 building 11 at the National Art School

My work this year was about being inspired and as artists what we do with materials of inspiration do develop our unique “style”



World Sport
 2025

football, wire, beach ball, couch, sheet, realtree mat
Part of my MFA final Postgrad Show studio install located in level 2 building 11 at the National Art School

My work this year was about being inspired and as artists what we do with materials of inspiration do develop our unique “style”



Assinatura
 2025

posca on ID badge holders

Part of my MFA final Postgrad Show studio install located in level 2 building 11 at the National Art School
Each badge holders signed by my favourite and artists I was surrounded by during my final year of my degree

My work this year was about being inspired and as artists what we do with materials of inspiration do develop our unique “style”.





Untitled (playlist)
 2025

found media video work
1hour 3mins 37secs
Shown in my final MFA studio installation at the National Art School.

This work is a compilation and at times mashup of videos I had been collecting in a youtube playlist over the final year of my degree.

I chose to have music playing over the whole video because thats what I do usually no matter what I’m doing I’m either listening to music or reminded of music in the process.