Recent work of Hew Locke is shown in London, Hales Gallery, from October 10 tll November 22.
La Luni St., 2014.
Hales Gallery is delighted to announce Beyond the Sea Wall, Hew Locke’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The show will comprise of new and recent works in various mediums, such as sculpture, painted photographs and painted share certificates, in which Locke explores and connects the ideas of past and present, good and bad fortune, as well as memories from his childhood in Guyana.
About:
Hew Locke (b. Edinburgh, UK, 1959) spent his formative years (1966-1980) in Guyana before returning to the UK to complete an MA in sculpture at the Royal College of Art (1994). Recent works have been included in The Folkestone Triennial (2011), the 54th Venice Biennale (2010), Deptfor X (2012). In 2014 Locke’s works will be featured in Prospect New Orleans, the International Contemporary Art Biennial.
Adrift, 2011-2012.
In recent years Locke has focused on his fascination and ambivalence around ideas and images of Britishness in a global context, such as the royal family. Locke explores global cultural fusions, creating complex sculptural collages with an eclectic range of objects, including mass produced toys, souvenirs and consumer detritus.
The artist’s personal history – he spent the first seven years of his life in Edinburgh before moving to the newly independent Guyana and later returning to London in the 1980s – feeds into his ongoing interest in the links between personal and national identity.
Nameless, 2010 (installation view)
Locke has exhibited extensively within the UK, including Tate Britain as part of BAS6, V & A Museum, The New Art Gallery Walsall, The Bluecoat Gallery and the British Museum. Locke has recently been commissioned to make a permanent installation for the New Art Exchange, Nottingham. In the US he has exhibited at the Luckman Gallery LA, Atlanta Contemporary Arts and at the Brooklyn Museum. In Autumn 2008, as well as exhibiting with Iniva at Rivington Place, Locke will present work in the group exhibition ‘Second Life’ at the Museum of Art and Design, New York.
Mummy’s Little Soldier, 2013.
Selected shows include National Portrait Gallery (London), El Museo de Bario (New York), Fondation Clément (Martinique), The Bell House (Prague), Kunsthal KAdE (Netherlands), Tate Britain (London), V&A Museum (London), The New Art Gallery (Walsall), Rivington Place (London), The Bluecoat Gallery (Liverpool), The British Museum (London), The New Art Exchange (Nottingham), The Luckman Gallery (LA), The New York Museum of Art and Design (New York), Atlanta Contemporary Arts (US), The Brooklyn Museum (New York), Perez Art Museum Miami. In 2010 Locke’s work, Sikandar, was shortlisted for the Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square (London).
Including Border, 2014.
Locke’s work is represented in many collections including The Government Art Collection (UK), Miami Art Museum (US), The Tate Gallery (UK), The Arts Council of England (UK), The Collection of Eileen and Peter Norton (US), The Brooklyn Museum (New York), The Arnold Lehman Collection (US), The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (US), Kansas City Collection (US), The RSID Museum (Rhode Island), The New Art Gallery (Walsall), The Victoria & Albert Museum Drawing Collection (London), The British Museum (London) and The Henry Moore Institute (Leeds).
Locke lives and works in London, UK.
Syndicat Franco Iranien, 2014.
Hew Locke is represented by Hales Gallery, London.
(see also article in September edition Africanah.org on performance of Hew Locke in Tate Modern)