C.V.

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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, 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.


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‘FREESTYLE’
is a 2026 group exhibition shown at an offsite location on Marrickville Metro property.



Photos by Milla Thompson
Located at the cul-de-sac at Victoria Street, Marrickville.

The exhibition featured 8 artists:
Luke Martins, Kenya Peterson, Jordan Dempsey, Mia Kidis,
Halen Assef, Anoushka Mondraty, Luca Leggo, Sadie Whelan.


Stumbled upon this open lot while on shift at my art delivery job. It was on property owned by Marrickville Metro shopping centre. I brought together eight of my favourite people and artists (including myself) to do an offsite show here. It took about 6 months of planning and coordination for this one night. We had an estimated 100+ people in attendance over the two hour duration of the show.

The idea of the show is that I wanted the viewer to walk into the space and initially not notice anything in it. I wanted the works to blend into it’s environment, to then be discovered. Similar to how we find interesting things/objects/images on the street while on a walk, in our everyday life. Those incidental moments of emotional stimulation by something we come across randomly is closer to the experience of real art. Rather than a heavily curated spectacle of commercial art situated within a white cube disguised in some elaborate concept in order to sell a painting.



I spoke more about this with Atia Rahim at FBI Radio:




Exhibition poster designed by Luke Martins & Scott McMaster


My works in the exhibition are below. Further down is documentation of exhibition installation, works and related materials (posters and exhibition booklet).



The One Thing Between Me & You
2026

Parrafin oil on brick, maccas, parrafin oil on concrete
Dimensions variable With this work I wanted to conflate the desire for world peace with longing for a romantic relationship. Hence the title. The one thing between me and you is the medium, what sits between the viewer and “peace”? in this work its oil.



Flashing Lights
2026
Collaboration with Jordan Dempsey

Cellophane on light panels
Dimensions variable Jordan and I wanted to add to the urban environment, almost like a quality of life improvement colouring 5 of 9 light panels. This work sat outside the enclosed exhibition space. I think this work begs for attention but it’s not eye-catching enough to make anyone think anything of it. Despite the title, these lights do not flash. However they can still be seen there today.

Documentation of exhibition installation, works and related materials below


Freestyle with Pirates of the Carbomb Infantry
5:30pm - 7:30pm May 2nd, 2026
Installation documented through @piratesofthecarbombinfantry

More information on Pirates of the Carbomb Infantry here: https://hollywoodsuperstar.co.uk/posts/pirates-of-the-carbomb-infantry-interview
 Featuring artists:
Luke Martins, Kenya Peterson, Jordan Dempsey, Mia Kidis,
Halen Assef, Anoushka Mondraty, Luca Leggo, Sadie Whelan.


Located in an offsite location Marrickville Metro property in Sydney, Australia.





Freestyle Exhibition Roomsheet Booklet
2026
Compiled, edited and designed by Luke Martins

Scan of exhibition booklet
13 pages With words, poems and writings by @john___master @sydneyyesterday @wassuprockers__ @sadie_whelan @nettspend_ #samraimi @kirstendunst #tobeymaguire #mikaelaschulz

Plans to expand this to a larger physical exhibition book are under way.