Lives and works in London, UK
lucasallan@me.com
The London-based artist Lucas Allan works primarily in painting, creating images that hover in a state of suspension, moments
that resist instant readability and evade the quick consumption of contemporary visual culture. Rooted in personal photographs
yet unbound from their original context, the works unfold as layered abstractions where certainty dissolves into ambiguity.
Improvisation and error sit at the core of the process, as paint is allowed to drift, shift, and fracture, opening space for disruption,
intuition, and unexpected revelation.
Drawing from a constellation of ephemeral sources such as blurred film stills, seed catalogues, polaroids, and half-remembered
snapshots, Allan reimagines fleeting imagery as dense, painterly surfaces that pulse with traces of time and memory. The works
neither clarify nor decode their origins; instead, they embrace the fragment, the misalignment, and the ghost of a narrative that
never fully resolves. Themes of dislocation and perceptual slippage recur throughout the practice, echoing the uncertain terrain
between presence and absence, recollection and forgetting.
In transforming transient visual moments into contemplative, non-linear forms, Allan invites viewers into a space of open interpretation.
The paintings operate less as fixed statements than as atmospheric propositions, images that linger, shift, and unfold slowly, asking us to
remain with the elusive and the transient rather than seeking conclusion.