Luke Hamel Cooke is an English sculptor who works in West London.

Hamel Cooke’s work is silent and still. It is surprising such things can be made today. Things made of clay and bronze that stand immobile; do not threaten, inform or serve. It’s surprising because the night sky is no longer silent. It rumbles with Heathrow’s next arrival and information on white screens is shown through the night before empty roundabouts. Looking at Hamel Cooke’s work is to turn away from information and entertainment, and to reassociate oneself with silence. To look and know it is ceramic (was clay/earth) and was shaped by thumbs and fingers. To see a coherence of familiar forms. To see a thing that is beyond us - as the night sky once was.

The work is concerned with slow, imperceptible processes of the natural world, and yet it is not clear what these processes result in. The processes of gestation and germination inexorably lead somewhere and yet the work does not deal with the results of these processes but finds a form within which they inhabit.

Luke Hamel Cooke (b. 1997) is an English sculptor who works in West London. The evolution of his current practise began in January 2021, when working for his degree show at Falmouth University. There, he made small, clay monopods and within a month he had made enough for an installation. The installation resembled a sea of bristling life straining up towards some source of energy.

For The Well Head, BRINK Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, the motifs that found form in the monopods are driven to serve greater ends. While the initial work strove towards some exterior energy source The Well Head presents work that acts for this energy, drawing it down to the earth. Luke has exhibited extensively throughout the country and will soon take up a residency in Venice.