Donald Locke’s Dageraad from the Air has been installed in the last room (1965-1980) of the Walk Through British Art collection display. Dageraad from the Air appears alongside the works of artists like Rasheed Araeen, Neil Kenlock, Cecilia Vicuña, Gavin Jantjes, Richard Long, and other. See the full list of works here.
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To top his recent Tate Britain Commission, the Procession, Hew Locke just unveiled four sculptures in the Met Fifth Avenue’s facade niches. The commission, titled Gilt, references objects and sculptures from the Met’s collections. The Met’s exhibit label describes it best: “Gilt is the third in a series of commissions for the Met’s historical facade. Borrowing the format of trophies—emblems of […]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11d64_f-m6U The Procession by Hew Locke, Donald Locke’s son, is on view until January 2023 at Tate Britain. This commissioned work which Hew created specifically for the Tate encourages viewers to “reflect on the cycles of history, and the ebb and flow of cultures, people and finance and power” by immersing them in the procession. As Tate Britain explains, “A […]
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Donald Locke’s work was featured in the exhibition, AfroScots: Revisiting the Work of Black Artists in Scotland through New Collecting, at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Glasgow, Scotland. The exhibit explored the contributions of black artists in Scotland’s culture and was created in response to the “whiteness” of existing Scottish art history narratives. By bringing together post-1960s art […]
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Donald Locke’s work was showcased at the 2022 FOG Art Fair in San Francisco, CA, and was represented by the Jenkins Johnson Gallery. The two pieces (right) demonstrate some of Locke’s most innovative styles, including his mixed media ceramics and mixed media collages. Especially given that Donald’s time in Arizona in the 1970s and 80s had such a huge impact […]
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THE WORK OF DONALD LOCKENews & Events The Fitzwilliam Museum University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK September 8, 2023 – January 7, 2024 Four artworks by Donald Locke are featured in Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition, Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance. On view September 8, 2023 – January 7, 2024. Keep reading… Tate Britain London, England Ongoing Donald Locke’s Dageraad from […]
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The Tate Britain exhibition, Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art, 1950s-Now, included Donald Locke’s work as part of its exploration of over four generations of Caribbean-British artists. With art from more than forty artists whose works spanned various media including film, photography, painting, sculpture, and fashion, the exhibit was among the first of its kind to engage the stories of Caribbean-British […]
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Buccaneer Fish, 2006; charcoal, crayon, chalk on paper; 36 x 29.75″ From the Pork Knocker Portraits: Big Nose Tooloo, 2009; graphite, collage, mixed media on paper; 18 x 16″ From the Pork Knocker Portraits: Man of Sorrow, 2009; graphite, collage, mixed media on paper; 18 x 16″ Maximillian William Gallery, London, presented Exploratory Drawings, an exhibition featuring drawings and photographs […]
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Donald Locke was represented at the 2021 Miami Basel Art Fair by Jenkins-Johnson Gallery of San Francisco and Brooklyn, a Black-owned, female-founded gallery. The Jenkins-Johnson Gallery joined the fair this year along with a number of other gallery spaces underrepresented in the art world. In fact, according to the NYTimes, this has been one of the Miami Basel Art Fair’s […]
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Dageraad from the Air, 1976-1978; acrylic, metal grill, and tin tacks on canvas; 48″ x 66.5″ Plantation K/140, 1976; mixed media; 12″ x 15″ x 13″ The Tate Britain acquired two of Locke’s works. One was the mixed media painting, Dageraad from the Air, and the other was the mixed media sculpture, Plantation K/140. Below are shots of Dageraad from […]
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