Locke is the eldest son of Guyanese sculptor Donald Locke (1930–2010) and British painter Leila Chaplin (d. 1992). He spent his formative years (1966 to 1980) in Georgetown, Guyana, before returning to the UK to study. He received a B.A. Fine Art in 1988 from Falmouth University, and an M.A. Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London in 1994. In 1995 he married curator Indra Khanna. He is represented by Hales Gallery, London.
Career
Locke first came to national attention in 2000 when he won both a Paul Hamlyn Award and the EASTinternational Award and installed Hemmed In Two as part of the contemporary arts programme at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. This was followed by the creation of Cardboard Palace, a major new installation for his solo show at the Chisenhale Gallery, London (2002).
Exhibitions
Since then, he has exhibited widely, with solo shows at venues including Luckman Gallery, California State University (2004), The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, USA (2004), The New Art Gallery Walsall (2005), Rivington Place, London (2008), ArtSway, Hampshire (2011), Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, the Netherlands (2011) and Hales Gallery, London (2005, 2008, 2010, 2014). His works are included in major group shows, such as Prospect New Orleans, Biennial, New Orleans (2014), Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2014), Glasstress White Light/White Heat, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice (2013), Holy Toy Sølvberget Galleri, Stavanger, Norway (2010), The 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece (2009), South South Justina M. Barnincke Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada (2009), Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean ArtBrooklyn Museum, USA (2007), British Art Show 6BALTIC Gateshead (2005) and Barrocos y Neobarrocos Salamanca, Spain (2005).
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Artist Jaouad Bentama finally felt like he was making it when tragedy struck. Courtesy the artist. Jaouad Bentama keeps apologizing for the heat ...Sign Up For Our Daily Newsletter. Sign Up ... Artist Hew Locke Confronts Colonialism at the British Museum ... .
Any exhibition that included Frank Bowling’s paintings, Kara Walker’s watercolours and Hew Locke’s drifting flotilla of model ships had force enough, but this one didn’t shy from showing British attitudes encapsulated in works by Turner and Reynolds.
Shocking stories … Hew Locke...David Levene/The Observer2 Hew Locke ... Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke unpacks these shocking stories, using his own sculptures, and his terse, critical commentaries to ...
Hew Locke won the commission, the first of its kind in Belgium, to recontextualise the equestrian statue of King Leopold II in the seaside resort of Ostend.
A temporary exhibition by the British-Guyanese artist Hew Locke placed his own works alongside those plundered by Britain when it was a colonial power, and was described as “inescapably, deeply shocking” by the Guardian.
bad ... the USS Constitution ship (“Armada 6”, Locke’s own replica of the ship, features in the exhibition) starts as one thing (protecting American trade including the slave trade) and ends up as something else (being used to disrupt the slave trade) ... .
Exhibition of the week. The subtle and sensitive paintings of this Bloomsbury Group stalwart prove modernist art doesn’t have to be explosive to be interesting ... Also showing ... RIBA/PA ... Hew Locke’s British Museum looting exposé is ‘inescapably shocking’ ... .
... the artist places his own works alongside those plundered by Britain from long-destroyed peoples Part history lesson, part crime scene, Hew Locke’s What Have We Here? is filled with beauty and horror.
Puzzles. Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles ... If you have the uncanny feeling of being watched as you go around Hew Locke’s exhibition at the British Museum, it’s because you are ... The artist Locke, born in Scotland and brought up in Guyana in ... .
The artist is after serious dialogue with the BM’s collection, not finger-wagging – and this is a show the institution absolutely should be doing ... .
Hew Locke describes his new British Museum exhibition as “a messing around with colonial history”, which sees the artist mix objects from the museum’s collection – many of which are not usually on ...
