Lucas Wright is a contemporary artist with Down Syndrome living in the Northern Rivers region. He draws inspiration from Western art landscape and architectural painting, and popular cultural imagery from his favourite television programs, movies, games and comics.
His ongoing series, Lucas and the Midsomer Murders, draws inspiration from his all-time favourite TV program, Midsomer Murders, which he watches daily. Through painting, drawing, paper sculpture, and his distinctive text-based mark-making, Lucas reimagines the show’s architecture, landscapes, characters, and storylines. Each work reflects his personal fascination with the series, offering multidimensional interpretations of its fictional world.
Lucas’s artworks demonstrate an extraordinary chronological knowledge of every series and episode, along with a detailed understanding of character arcs, plot developments, buildings, and settings. He creates handwritten lists that document all 24 series, 140 episodes, and the many characters that have appeared over the show’s 28-year history. These works reveal his unique approach to mark-making and his passion for recording and organising the episodic elements of Midsomer Murders.
Lucas has been developing this body of work at The Outpost Studio in Lismore, working closely with his mentor artists, Claudie Frock and René Bolten. Together, they support the evolution of his art practice and help to transform this personal interest into a rich, imaginative and unique visual world.
Lucas Wright has exhibited as part of a number of solo and group shows in the Northern Rivers Region including Lismore Regional Gallery, Lone Goat Gallery and Serpentine Gallery, as well as receiving a coveted Bundanon Trust Artist in Residency in 2018, that culminated in his 2021 solo exhibition, In my town and your town at Lismore Regional Gallery.