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 ...

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, ...

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 sculptural interrogations of Britain’s imperial past may be bang on the spirit of the still-smouldering Black Lives Matter moment. But there’s an elliptical, miniaturist finesse ...

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/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/DACS, London; Hales Gallery and PPOW The baroque excess in Locke’s work often belies “the suggestion of something sinister,” said Kobena ...

Hew Locke was born in 1959 in Edinburgh, UK, to the artists Donald and Leila Locke. The family sailed from the UK to Guyana in 1966 and Hew was based there until 1980. He returned to the UK to ...

‘Hew Locke: The Procession’ featured in ICA Watershed’s 2024 season The collection, which includes 100-plus life-size figures, is coming to Boston this May.

London-based British-Guyanese artist Hew Locke took to Instagram to share his disappointment upon learning that the city of Ostend in Belgium has apparently canceled a site-specific artwork they ...

The British-Guyanese artist Hew Locke will unveil a series of new works at the site of a controversial statue in Ostend depicting the late Belgium monarch Leopold II.

Ostend commissioned Brixton-based Hew Locke to recontextualise the equestrian statue of King Leopold II – but has now cancelled the plans. Jump to content. UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...

Let’s be clear: “alternative facts” are not a thing. But when it comes to alternative histories, which are British-Guyanese artist Hew Locke’s stock in trade, the words make a lot more ...