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Duke and Lume
072024–2026

Reliquaries

Reliquaries follows a single idea across many works: a plant form opened just enough to reveal the treasure it protects. Amber caught in a spent grain, turquoise wrapped in gauze, crystal blooming from stone — each is a small shrine to the act of keeping.

6 works

A photorealistic ornate brass armillary cage enclosing a large smoky quartz orb, set with opal, garnet and pearl cabochons, mounted on a rough dark stone base veined with malachite against a gilded damask backdrop.
A heavily impasto painting of a large pastel flower — peach and cream petals — opening around a smooth banded blue-and-tan agate stone at its centre.
A vessel is an argument for keeping something.
A dark painterly close-up of a bronze-toned seed pod opened to reveal a veined turquoise egg wrapped in translucent gauze, with fine roots rising behind it against a near-black textured ground.
The Cradle2026
A painterly lantern-shaped cage of dried oat stems and sheer gauze cradling a gold-veined turquoise egg, against thick sea-green and cream brushstrokes.
Seedkeeper2026
A painterly blush-pink and cream flower bract opened to reveal a glowing golden amber stone wrapped in a translucent membrane, against a warm peach impasto background.
Amber Vespers2026
A painterly close-up of a violet-toned ear of wheat split open to reveal a glowing seam of orange amber, against dusty purple and slate-blue impasto strokes.
Ember Grain2026
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