Lucas Grogan

Lucas Grogan (born 1984) is an Australian artist born in Cooma, New South Wales. Grogan is a painter and textile artist currently based in Melbourne, Australia. Grogan exhibited overseas and Australia since 2005.

Art career Grogan grew up in Maitland, and consider Maitland his hometown. Grogan left Maitland and studied art at Newcastle University in 2003 to base himself in Melbourne.

In 2020, he had a retrospective of his work in Maitland Regional Art Gallery. His style is almost always blue and white colours in his paintings and textile art. Grogan's inspirations and influences includes islamic motifs and patterns in his geometric line-work to traditional Aboriginal paintings. Grogan also used text in his art, using sarcastic quotes that jump out at the viewer which can be famous, overheard and everyday sayings. Many of the phrases are from the style of text messaging. On his use of texts, Grogan said, “They are sarcastic, but at times they’re also painfully honest and sincere.” All his texts and intricately detailed patterns are painted freehand.

Grogan has shown in Australia and internationally such as Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Auckland, Rarotonga and London. Grogan received Red Gate residency in Beijing, and completed major murals commissions in Bali, Newcastle, Melbourne and Perth.

His works are in private and public collections across Australia, including National Gallery of Australia, Newcastle Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Wesfarmers, Deutsche Bank, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, and Ararat Gallery.

Residencies

2013: Artist in Residence, Red Gate, Beijing, China 2012: Australian Tapestry Workshop Residency, Melbourne, Australia

Selected solo exhibitions

2023: Lucas Grogan: Cabinets, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, Australia 2021: Lucas Grogan: A Short Sharp Thread, Martin Browne Contemporary, Paddington, Sydney, Australia 2023: Holy SMokes, Backwoods Gallery, Collingwood, Australia 2018: The Big Blue, Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands 2017: Slipstitch, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2017: Art Basel Hong Kong, Yavuz Gallery, Hong Kong 2014: Melbourne Art Fair, Gallerysmith, Melbourne, Australia 2013: Sacred/Iconic, Garis & Hahn, New York, United States of America 2013: Wonderworks, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong 2005: Yellow Socks Brigade (with Luke Thurgate), Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle, Australia