Australian Wood Review

(2025) Australian Wood Review Magazine, Issue 126, Pages 44-49.

I wrote an article for Australian Wood Review about authorship and attribution within the creative industries.

Storytelling is an integral part of our culture. It touches nearly every industry, drives decision making and forms our shared culture. Narrative is synonymous with craft. It is the essential characteristic in the creation and marketing of craft. Offering genuine authenticity and greater emotional connection, craft leverages narrative to be uniquely bespoke and deeply personal.

— Luke Batten

Australian Wood Review

(2024) Australian Wood Review Magazine, Issue 125, Page 53.

Maker of the Year Awards feature.

Australian Wood Review

(2023) Australian Wood Review Magazine, Issue 121, Page 37.

Maker of the Year Awards feature.

Australian Wood Review

(2023) Australian Wood Review Magazine, Issue 119, Pages 56-59.

I wrote an article for Australian Wood Review about Design and simplicity.

In a creative context, our natural inclination for grand gestures can be precarious. Addition is easier than subtraction, frequently resulting in too much design. Simple design is often overlooked or mistaken for something lacking. It represents however, a great sophistication, distilling complexity into something beautifully minimal.

— Luke Batten

Design Quarterly

(2016) Design Quarterly Magazine, Issue 52, Pages 100-101.

(on using a shared workshop to produce my work) “...and at times raw, exchange of ideas. This facilitates critical reflection of my own work, further develops my own processes...”

— Sophia Watson

The Canberra Times

(2015) Capital Life: What's on in Canberra's arts scene from October 17

Ever looked at a piece of furniture and wondered how it was designed? Wonder no longer. The Gallery of Australian Design's latest exhibition Process shows the work behind emerging designer/maker Luke Batten's pieces. The finished products are revealed but the process underpinning their creation is also on display. From idea to production, audiences are invited to explore and reflect upon the development method unique to each product. Rather than just being a means to an end the hands-on exhibition is said to subtly suggest that the process is an art-form in its own right. Batten works with wood to craft unique objects investigating "material, structures and function". Process is on at the Gallery of Australian Design, Kingston until October 28.

— Clare Colley

Green Magazine

(2014) Green Magazine, Issue 37, Page 10.

“...founder of contant mechanics. Apprently he was pretty good at spreading the load - and so is this striking, strong and flat-packable chair.”

— Jenny Lyon

UsFolk Magazine

(2013) UsFolk Magazine, Issue 4, Pages 51-54.

“...the Hertzian Chair and the Cartesian Stool. Both Designs explore the contrast between the flexibility and rigidity of the material they are made from. They are beautiful, functional, sophisticated and challenge our preconceptions of wooden furniture.”

— Juliette Dudley