The pulsating acid tinged continuum of the Spectral Nation. A shared consciousness, a parallel mind state reality reversal leading to unknown dimensions and refracted visions, a kaleidoscopic landscape, a layered plateau, a journey unfolding and un-ending towards retinal, refractional release.

Spectral Nation is a collaboration between Luke Frost, Jon Rundall, and Therese Vandling. Their work is a process-led exploration of screen printing and abstract composition.

Emerging from the interplay of natural forces and the actions of the artists, their unique compositions are an exercise in colour interaction and the manipulation of irregularities within the print process. Compositions evolve across each series of work, with shifting details playing out on a larger scale. With layers applied in a painterly manner, their aleatoric approach builds up visually distorted textures, echoing psychedelic states of consciousness, and showing parallels with layered audio recordings.

Their recent series of works ‘Erase Phase’, use an amalgam of masking techniques, monoprinting, hand pulled raw gestural first passes contrasted with smoother blended gradients, creating visual tension and discordant colour combinations in increasingly complex scenes that are ambiguous and open to suggestion by the viewer.

The Ambient Haze works are meditations on colour. Using a diffusion dither stencil technique to build up layers of gradients, expansive colour interactions arise. The half way line providing a reference point alluding to a horizon.

Between them they have studied at Royal College of Art, London College of Printing (LCC), and Croydon Art College.

They have exhibited since 2009 with recent solo shows at Gallery 46 Whitechapel and All is Joy, London and group shows in the UK & Internationally (Neu Gallery, London 2009, Autobahn, Istanbul 2011, Galleri Storck, Oslo 2013, Beach, London 2014).

Their work is held at Galleri Storck, Oslo and Lancaster Museum of Art & History, Los Angeles, Soho House, Brown’s.

Solo Exhibitions

• Ambient Haze
  Gallery 46, London, 2024
• Eraze Phaze Sub Lux Berserk Hole
  All Is Joy, London, 2024
• Spectral Nation/Vague Horizonsss
  Mad Atelier, London, 2018
• Spectral Nation/Atmospheric Disturbances
  Material, London, 2015
• Chromotopia Into the Spectral Nation
  Stories, London, 2015
• Spectral Nation
  Beach London, London, 2014
• Spectral Nation
  Material, Ludlow, 2013
• Animorphia
  Camp and Furnace, Liverpool, 2013
• Spectral Nation
  Galleri Storck, Oslo, 2013
• Spectral Nation
  Coningsby Gallery, London, 2013
• Forbidden Onion Zoop
  Material, London, 2012
• Verboten Zweibeln / Unknown Parts
  London, 2011
• Bare Bones
  Neu Gallery, December 2009

Group Exhibitions

• Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair: Edition 9
  London from 21 - 24 November 2024
• Signs and Symbols: From Street Art To High Art
  Lancaster Museum of Art & History, Los Angeles, 2013
• To London With Love
  Material, London, 2012
• To Bristol With Love
  Here Gallery, Bristol, 2012
• Bones, Guns, and Heretics
  Autobahn, Istanbul, 2011
• People Of Print
  Beach, London, 2011
• Four Floods
  Concrete Hermit, London, 2011
• Mother Drucker
  Berlin, 2011
• New Lexicons Of Dark
  Hoxton Gallery, London, 2011
• Bare bones 5
  Red Gallery, London, 2011
• Anti Design Festival
  Neu Gallery, London, 2010
• Bare Bones 4
  Envoy, New York, 2010
• Bare Bones 3
  Neu Gallery, London, 2010
• People Of Print
  Here Gallery, Bristol, 2009
• Bare Bones 1
  Dazed & Confused, London, 2009