Ben Luke

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1,919 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 1 Sep

Ben Luke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 8 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 3.

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A brush with... · A brush with... Richard Tuttle · 25 Aug 2026 podcast

And I wanted to pick up on that because you made a very direct response in Ostend in 2017. voice-verified

You did a show where you responded very directly to Ensor. voice-verified

And one of the interesting things about Ensor, it seems to me, is there's a lovely text that was actually part of the information about that exhibition by Ensor. voice-verified

He's talking about the active properties of the colours. voice-verified

He ends it by saying, how is one to manage this beautiful crowd? voice-verified

Talking about the colours, you know. voice-verified

And personifying the colours, you know, and that seems to me to be so much part of your work. voice-verified

The way that colour is part of your work is both subtle and then you get these amazing bursts of beautiful, rich colour. voice-verified

You know, a lot of what you're doing is managing the beautiful crowd of colours, isn't it? voice-verified

in other words that distinctiveness about color with every different experience and also as you say in different lights you know color performs so differently under so many different conditions right but you you can exploit that in the work to a certain degree right voice-verified

But it's also something like it's been well documented in theory and philosophy and so on, that there is something about the condition of colour that is also similar to the condition of music and the way that we don't hear the same thing twice either. voice-verified

Even if there is the repetitive condition of listening to something on a recording, it still appears different because of the environment we listen to it, the people we listen to it with and so on. voice-verified

So there are properties that colour and music and sound generally share. voice-verified

And it seems to me that that's another thing that's there in your work. voice-verified

Let's talk about contemporary artists. voice-verified

Which contemporary artists do you most admire? voice-verified

I want to talk about Agnes because I love Agnes so much. voice-verified

And I mean, it seems to me there's this amazing thing that happens, which is you meet her in 63, right? voice-verified

Just at that point when the grid work is really coming into this crescendo, you know. voice-verified

So can you tell me about, because is it right, you sort of just rang her up, you admired her and so you rang her up and then went to meet her and so on? voice-verified

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