About
Audrey Lukban is a Filipino artist born in Manila, Philippines, currently based in London. Working with installations and paintings, she explores diasporic experiences whilst retracing her cultural identity and histories.
Lukban considers her works, whether paintings or sculptural props, as movable, adaptable objects that can be continually rearranged. This fluidity reflects her interest in constructing and altering narrative spaces, drawing parallels to stage design. Rooted in her family’s history of short-term migrations, her practice is shaped by the repeated acts of packing, unpacking, and the slow rearrangement of items.
Through this process, she continuously sketches as a way to process history—an approach that has deeply influenced how she paints on wood. Her paintings often begin with a mark: a dilution of oil paint and solvent that is rubbed and pressed onto the surface in repeated layers. Through this cycle of application and removal, forms begin to emerge mirroring the nature of her research and her search for a cultural identity which is often left fragmented.