Martyn Lucas
artist | curator | educator

Curated for the Turnpike Gallery, May 2025, featuring Robyn Denny, Victor Pasmore, Gerd Winner and more

Curated for the Turnpike Gallery, May 2025, featuring Tadek Beutlich, Carl Rown, Kip Gresham, Peter Phillips, Eduardo Paolozzi, Laurence Scarfe, William Scott, Patrick Caulfield, and more

Paintings by Len Green and textiles and drawings by Jeanette Orrell. Curated for the Turnpike Gallery, April 2024

Photographs by Francesco Mellina in Wigan town centre as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations, Sept - Oct 2023

An exhibition celebrating 50 years of Wigan Casino featuring work by Dean Chalkley, William Titley and students from Wigan & Leigh College, held in a vacant shop unit in Wigan town centre Sept-Oct 2023

Curated with young people at the Turnpike Gallery, April 2023, featuring work by Robyn Woolston, Helen Bendon, Sophy King, Brigitte Jurack, Klaus Thymann, Rebecca Chesney, Gregory Herbert, David Maisel, Maya Chowdhry, Nerissa Cargill Thompson, Amy Twigger Holroyd, Chitra Merchant, Jane Lawson, Carolyn Morton, Richard Shilling, Grace Baker.
curating
Exhibitions and Projects
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I have worked with contemporary artists and organisations to commission and curate exhibitions in public galleries and artist-led spaces.
As a curator, I have commissioned and worked on exhibitions with a range of artists, curators and organisations, including the Arts Council Collection, Chrysalis Arts, West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Angela Kingston, Andrew Bick, Tony Bevan, Norman Dilworth, Danielle Creenaune, Katherine Jones, Sumi Perera, Saba Rifat, Paula Fenwick, Dean Chalkley, Leo Fitzmaurice, Cross Street Arts, OWL Project, Zarah Hussain and Willie Williams. I have worked in partnership with established commercial galleries such as Cristea Roberts and Gimpel Fils, as well as public institutions such as Tate Liverpool, the Whitworth Art Gallery, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Institute of Education, London, Liverpool Hope University and York St. John University.
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