Ollie Lucas

Ollie Lucas is a multidisciplinary Melbourne (Naarm) based artist known for his vibrant and immersive works that draw inspiration from colourful advertising and neon cityscapes. His work centres on his creative take on the industrial function of coloured flags and signals that direct the travel of trains, planes, and ships, known as semaphores. Settings within urban areas such as Federation Square, Times Square, Moscow's Red Square, and Shibuya offer a visual and audio feast of semaphore imagery. These sites are often multifunctional: a workplace, a festive space, a physical location or a hyperreal site for information-exchange, all at once. This cacophony of imagery - posters, billboards, flags and signals are translated into Lucas’s paintings in an attempt to explain our current urban consciousness.