Jonathan Luckhurst
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Jonathan Luckhurst is a Canadian photographer and installation artist based in Edmonton, Alberta. After spending three years documenting the Kumbh and Magh Mela mass Hindu pilgrimages in Northern India, Luckhurst turned to an art based photo practice, experimenting widely with his photographic work by incorporating paper negatives, photocopies, sculpture, charcoal and projection into his highly layered process. This layered, mixed-media approach to photography gives his prints a distinctive, painterly quality quite different from straightforward documentary images.
Luckhurst is the recipient of several grants from the Canada Council for the Arts (ACDI), the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Edmonton Arts Council, and his work is part of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts permanent collection. His first solo exhibition was in 2010 at WAVE Gallery in Brescia, Italy, and in 2011 his first book was published by WAVE Editions. In 2015 he participated in the Vancouver Biennale International Residency Program, creating a large scale three-panel photographic intervention in a public space exploring the intersection of humans and environment.
Beyond exhibitions, in 2020 he was commissioned by the Art Gallery of Alberta to create an installation, ANIMAL ARCHITECTS, for the BMO World of Creativity Gallery. His more recent practice, informed by a scientific background, has increasingly merged art with ecology and environmental themes. Works from his early photographic period—layered, atmospheric, and hand-worked—remain sought after for their combination of documentary origin and experimental process, making them distinctive within contemporary Canadian photography.
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