What do you mean?

By Luke D. King

Year
2026
Medium
Pencil, colour pastel, acrylic gouache, acrylic, gesso on Arches 300gsm paper & aerosol spray paint on mount
Dimensions
405×660mm framed
Availability
What do you mean? — orange frame with two cropped windows (left), beside Actually not so strange?

Each frame presents two images, deliberately cropped using mount paper to restrict what is visible. This controlled framing offers only partial information, prompting the viewer to engage with what is withheld as much as what is shown.

Across the works, Luke D King compresses and distorts the human figure—faces, eyes, and hands pressed into constrained spaces. Rendered in saturated colour, these forms move away from scale and spectacle, instead holding a tension between intimacy and unease, inviting a closer, more attentive gaze.

Photo: Kit Edwards

Installation view — the five frames staggered across a white wall
Detail — cropped windows in the orange and teal frames