Artist Statement
My practice explores the translation of carpentry’s tactile language into printmaking, merging the physicality of wood with the layered possibilities of digital and screen-based processes. Patterns of grain, the geometry of joinery, and the traces left by tools form a visual vocabulary that I reinterpret through photography, scanning, and vectorisation, creating a bridge between traditional craft and contemporary image-making.

This act of translating material into a digital file and then onto a printed surface opens a space for experimentation, distortion, and abstraction. I am drawn to how craft-based marks can persist, mutate, or dissolve as they traverse mediums, producing works that are simultaneously rooted in their origins and untethered from functional purpose.

I work primarily with printing, embracing its capacity for layering, registration shifts, and chromatic interplay, while also engaging woodworking tools to produce bespoke frames and display structures. I aim to create work that prompts viewers to reflect on how the essence of making evolves through cycles of transformation.

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Layers of Practice

What makes my practice unique is the mix of roles I inhabit. I move between being a printmaker, woodworker, tattoo enthusiast, and musician — each perspective leaving its own grain, rhythm, or mark on the work.

Rather than separating these identities, I treat them as overlapping layers. The workshop, the print studio, the tattoo machine, and the music studio all feed into the same creative vocabulary. Together they shape how I think, make, and share.

LUUke Mullen

Artist

L P M wOOdworking

Woodworker

Luke Left TattOOs

Tattoo artist

Luke Left SOunds

Musician