Category: ART RELATED POSTS

Stage

Strictly it might be not public art because it is not located in a public space. But at the other hand; there are not much larger works where a real audience sitting in front of it. The stage in the back space of Studio Amsterdam was bare brown and full of ugly stains. That was […]

List of exhibitions

2022 Playstate, Newcastle, Australia (30 Sep – 23 Oct)2022 Frogman gallery, Beijing (ongoing)2022 Blackstone galery, Newcastle, Australia (13 – 29 May) 2021 Bluethumb, Art award, FINALIST 2020 Wag the tail, Bolt space, Maitland (7 nov – 29 nov)2020 Plants, Botanic gardens, Sydney (25 July – 2 Aug) Finalist 2019 Aspire footsquare, Paddington, Australia (17 – […]

Gasworks Maitland

This design suggests a reference to the former gasworks in Maitland, which now houses the Reading Cinema. It is an abstracted version of pipes and machines with a touch of art deco. Although some people see a racetrack or a printed circuit board in it. Or even Aztec characters.The color scheme has been chosen taking […]

Stairwell in Newcastle

I was commissioned by a construction company in Newcastle to paint a mural in the stairwell of their office.We started this at the beginning of August 2021. This highly detailed mural took us 8 days. Most of it was indoors and there was no real deadline, so it was a pretty relaxed job. <a href=”https://www.vanlubeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1.jpg” […]

Rug in Newcastle

When we were painting the mural in Newcastle, we had a chat with the owner of the bar just around the corner. He was also the owner of the bar 2 doors down my house & studio in Maitland. So, he knew about the rug I painted on the footpath in front of my door. […]

Rugs in Morpeth

Six months after I painted the rug on the footpath in front of my door, I found a Call For Artists in my inbox. It was sent by Council and what they had in mind was quite similar of what I already had done. But on a larger scale. And they would like to have seen some […]

Mural in Newcastle

This project was part of The Big Picture Fest where 12 artists each got a wall to paint, which they had to complete in 5 days. It had taken place in other cities in Australia before, but never in Newcastle.The first mural that we already created in Maitland apparently made an impression, as I was […]

Literal street art

The footpath in our part of the street is very old and outdated, with a lot of cracks in it and endless patched up areas. I decided to created something artistic on it and see if people would like it. If not, then it would take me only 30 minutes to paint it back to […]

Ink drawings

Because oil paintings take a lot of time to finish, sometimes I want to do something with a relatively fast result. These ink drawings still take an evening each, but I love to do a few of them in between the long oil painting sessions. I don’t know why, but for some reason I feel […]

Double retroactive inspiration

A series of blogs about my favourite subject ‘retroactive inspiration’, needs an update! In an newspaper I saw a beautiful picture of a 60 years old cable cabin, located in Chiatura in Georgia. I looked it up on the internet and there were even more pictures of this amazing 6 kilometre long cable transport, what […]

Bob’s Bird Barn

For about a century this building in the center of Maitland, was home to the Carrington Hotel, which closed down in the 1980’s. Then came a pet store named Bob’s Bird Barn. But the last few decades the building is empty and neglected by the owner. To prevent more deterioration, the Council closed the windows […]

Icons of our collective memory

Our collective memory contains thousands of faces, names, brands, objects, scandals, disasters and victories. Like I said above; you often only need a small clue to understand what is meant. Two musical notes heard … and you can sing along to the song. Just some initials could be enough for certain celebs or brands. A […]

Artastique 2019

Recently we have organised an art event called Artastique.The idea was: for 10 days in March 2019, businesses will team up with artists to display artworks in shop windows of Maitland’s High Street, for the public to view and enjoy.The vision for this community initiative is of an event that puts the visual arts on […]

Mural in Maitland

In September the Maitland council did a call out to artists to come up with a idea for a 18 x 9 meter wall. Frank sent them a design based on one of my paintings, photoshopped on the wall. The council chose us to create it.We asked another artists (Andrew Bennett) to help us and […]

Bendigo Art Award

What a surprise when I got called on a quiet Sunday afternoon.“You’ve won the first prize.”“WHAT???”“You have won the first prize!” Earlier I had entered The Waller Art Prize. An inaugural &prize exhibition, first held in October 2018 at Trades Hall in Bendigo. The Prize was initiated by in honour of Bendigo Artist & BendArts […]

The sign is on

It has been a while since I posted an update about our move to Australia. Well, last year we found our perfect dream home, with a large shop window in the main street of Maitland. Maitland is about 30 kilometres from Newcastle. It has beautiful historic buildings and a railway to Newcastle and Sydney. Maitland […]

Lethbridge gallery

I became a finalist at the small scale art award of the Lethbridge gallery in Brisbane. I was not able to be present at the announcement of the prizes, but it’s still fun if the gallery owner picks just MY paintings to feature in advance!

Early works

I realized my preference for ‘weird faces’ was already visible in my early days.