Hew Locke
Employing various media such as drawing, painting, photography, relief, fabric, sculpture, and casting Hew Locke creates collage based visual art, critiquing power dynamics through the investigation of colonial pasts positioned in conversation with society's current obsession with money, ownership, worth, and globalization. By creating humorous pieces such as his fake Voodoo dolls Locke is able to explore ideas of identity and culture in a satirical tone. This allows him to join a larger conversation about the movement of peoples and the creation and integration of cultures as he becomes an insider himself. Integral to his work is the presence of historical resonance, which serves to enforce traditional expressions of power. More recently his exploration of authority and control has expanded into royal and swagger portraiture, coats-of-arms, public statuary, trophies, masculinity, financial documents, weaponry, and costume.
Locke’s work is represented in collections including The Government Art Collection, The Pérez Art Museum Miami, The Tate Gallery, The Art Council of England, The National Trust, The Brooklyn Museum in New York, The Arnold Lehman Collection, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, The RISD Museum in Rhode Island, The New Art Gallery Walsall, The Victoria & Albert Museum in London, …
Employing various media such as drawing, painting, photography, relief, fabric, sculpture, and casting Hew Locke creates collage based visual art, critiquing power dynamics through the investigation of colonial pasts positioned in conversation with society's current obsession with money, ownership, worth, and globalization. By creating humorous pieces such as his fake Voodoo dolls Locke is able to explore ideas of identity and culture in a satirical tone. This allows him to join a larger conversation about the movement of peoples and the creation and integration of cultures as he becomes an insider himself. Integral to his work is the presence of historical resonance, which serves to enforce traditional expressions of power. More recently his exploration of authority and control has expanded into royal and swagger portraiture, coats-of-arms, public statuary, trophies, masculinity, financial documents, weaponry, and costume.
Locke’s work is represented in collections including The Government Art Collection, The Pérez Art Museum Miami, The Tate Gallery, The Art Council of England, The National Trust, The Brooklyn Museum in New York, The Arnold Lehman Collection, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, The RISD Museum in Rhode Island, The New Art Gallery Walsall, The Victoria & Albert Museum in London, The Imperial War Museum, The British Museum, and The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. Recently he has held solo exhibitions at The Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art in New York, HMS Belfast in London, Hales Gallery in London, and the Tate Modern also in London.
