Through painting, photography, sculpture, and installation, British artist Hew Locke OBE RA interrogates colonial and ...

Cycles of history, and the idea of empire, have been central to Locke’s artistic interests and personal background. Born in Edinburgh in 1959 to a Guyanese father and an English mother, both ...

Hew Locke visits the British Museum in preparation for his exhibition. Richard Cannon “What have we here?” is the fruit of two years of Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke’s research at the ...

Hew Locke’s work – anchored in past events but jarringly contemporary – asks us not to romanticise our history but to question it. The London-based artist, who spent his childhood in Guyana, received ...

Hew Locke’s voice arrives like a whisper out of nowhere, emanating from speakers suspended throughout his new show at the British Museum in London. The invitation is generous, assuring visitors ...

Hew Locke at the British Museum review: a dense but endlessly fascinating look at untold histories - 4/5 The artist is after serious dialogue with the BM’s collection, not finger-wagging – and ...

And although Locke’s project turning a ‘critical eye’ on the museum’s colonial legacy, it is also curious about the historical and moral ambiguities that disappear in today’s climate of ...

Hew Locke's installation, "The Procession," was commissioned by Tate Britain in 2022. It's now on view at the ICA's Watershed in East Boston. (Courtesy Mel Taing/Institute of Contemporary Art) ...

Hew Locke’s “El Dorado” (2005), a mixed-media portrait of Queen Elizabeth II seen in New York in 2007, was “molten and spiky, monstrous and fragile,” our critic writes, ...

The volume of problematic artifacts Locke uncovered in the British Museum’s archives illustrates the fundamental importance of objective historical research. Hew Locke, (left to right) "Souvenir ...

Hew Locke: a maverick yet moving take on the British Museum’s colonial legacy. JJ Charlesworth. Mon, October 14, 2024 at 11:01 PM UTC. 3 min read.

Hew Locke’s work – anchored in past events but jarringly contemporary – asks us not to romanticise our history but to question it. The London-based artist, who spent his childhood in Guyana, received ...