Hi, I’m Luke. An artist, musician and philosopher by night, and ‘ideas whisperer’ by day.

My mad skills of fully open listening, hyper patterning recognising and punchy summarising — and my close collaborative contact with hundreds of artists, researchers and social entrepreneurs over the last decade of lecturing, tutoring and creating — means I’ve become a specialist at working with people in the formatives phases of their projects and ideas, whatever their walk of life.

I excel at listening to the complexities of someone’s creative life project, and then developing useful patterns/understandings to make real, practical progress. I’m also great at organising massive clusters of texts or creative outputs, and structure, editing and laying out long-form documents.

I work fast. We have fun. You feel refreshed and clearer (check those testimonials).

ASSISTING YOU WITH

• Creative process and next steps (when things feel stuck or unclear)
• Big ideas and structure (when your hunches need to take shape)
• Archival organisation (when you have stuff that needs sorting)
• Writing/story (when you need better words, and structure/layout)
• Visual design (when you need better visuals, for info and promo)

ACROSS A RANGE OF CONTEXTS

• research activities (proposals, reports, creative practice methods)
• creative practice (fixing blockages, defining next steps, planning)
• stories (short and long biographies, artist statements, press kits, promotional texts)
• long-form documents (books, reports, essays, poetry anthologies)
• work spaces (redesigning creative studios, workflows, layouts)

BEGINNING TO WORK TOGETHER

We usually begin with a 2-3hr session in a very friendly, open and refreshing conversation, leading to things feeling clearer and lighter afterwards.

I seek to understand your project and complexities with as much detail as you do, and then apply my pattern-building and story-telling capacities to it.

We chat in-depth and in-breadth about all relevant ideas, processes, feelings and issues relevant to your project — what are you hoping for? what are you exploring? what is clear and what is confusing? I check in with your feelings and bodily senses as much as thoughts and facts.

I jot all this down, and build a visual map of core factors. Much can be achieved in this first session. Patterns emerge and we begin to plot out next steps.

To sum up, you are out-sourcing your complexities to my intuition. My intuition is playing with connections it finds in the living intricacies of your project/idea. This can work because I love playing with patterns, understand creative process intimately and extensively, and come to your stuff afresh.

TESTIMONIALS