Rocky Lu

Rocky Lu is an artist in residence at Inglewood Arts Hub. He is multidisciplinary artist with autism, based in Perth/Boorloo. His passion for drawing began in early childhood, when he famously covered the walls of his home with a panoramic cityscape.

Throughout his schooling, Rocky continued to draw as a way of navigating and expressing his lived experience of disability, isolation, and a deeply held sense of social justice. 

His practice now spans drawing, painting, and, more recently, photography, with each medium offering a distinct lens through which he explores and interprets the world around him. 

Inspired by towering skyscrapers, dense cityscapes, and pop culture influences such as Gundam robots and Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, Rocky has developed a unique illustration style. His work weaves together machinery, symbols, and bold colours to create intricate robotic characters; reflecting his perspective of feeling different in an allistic world.  

Rocky has exhibited in several community art exhibitions and group shows, and being an artist in residence is an exciting next step in his career. He is spending his time at the Inglewood Arts Hub creating large scale illustrations with complex details which he will have framed and reproduced in prints, thanks to the City of Stirling Locally Led Creative Grants.  

He is providing colouring-in activity sheets at the Inglewood Arts Hub that locals have enjoyed and will be running a character drawing workshop for children in Term 2.  

Check out Rocky's artwork on Instagram @art.by.rocky

We hope you pop in to the Hub to meet Rocky as he works and grab a colour-in, and visit the IAH Gallery in June to see the work created by artists in residence, Rocky Lu and Iris Finn.