Luke Sellers
Unknown Man in Van Dyke-style Dress and Alice Cooper Make-up, 2011, ink on digital print, 25 x 200mm, ed of 3
Luke Sellers (b.1984 Nottingham, England) studied at Goldsmiths College, is interested in how art works perform to the viewer. Interweaving pop cultural references with theatrical imagery, Sellers looks to create hybrid worlds where separate elements combine to produce new performative qualities. For the work exhibited in ‘Afternoon Tea’, he was drawn to the nose of an existing image, showing a gentleman in fancy dress. The nose, straight and fine – it’s owner displaying his period costume – parallels the nose of another modern day gentleman performer, his make-up appearing to haunt the eyes and mouth of the unknown man.