Adelaide based painter, Luke Hunter, uses humour and darkness to send a message through his graphic pieces. Luke experiments with texture and text to create pieces that confuse and delight.

Luke shares with us his innermost thoughts and feelings, opening us up to a visual representation of the most common mental health issue facing someone you know right now; anxiety.

 Luke struggles with anxiety and depression and uses his paintings and images to explain his thought process and how he is feeling in the moment. With some paintings taking a couple of days, he finds that throughout his painting experience he is able to release some of the negative thoughts onto his canvas and better understand them himself.

 Luke wants people who also struggle with anxiety and depression to be able to use his artworks as a way to communicate their emotions, as Luke has found when you are in a negative spiral it becomes hard to communicate and sometimes an image can spark a conversation.