Cast your mind back to the Global Climate Strikes of 2019. If you took to the streets among the millions of other protesters demanding government action on anthropological climate change, there’s a good chance you might have come across the work of Luke John Matthew Arnold – even if you didn’t know it.
It was a turning point for the illustrator who has quickly made a name for himself (well, four of them as a self-confessed “name hog”) – using his trademark tongue-in-cheek humour to amplify the voices of underrepresented communities across the globe.
Growing up in the suburb of Loftus, on the outskirts of the Royal National Park, Luke still describes himself as “a little feral from the bush”. Throughout his childhood, he always loved making things, whether drawing on rocks with chalk in his backyard or
