THE WORK OF DONALD LOCKEResume Born September 1930, Stewartville, Guyana Died December 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA EDUCATION: 1969 1959-64 1954-57 1947-50 Post Graduate Award, Ceramic Research, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland Edinburgh University, Scotland (in conjunction with Edinburgh College of Art) MA Honors Degree in Fine Art (equivalent to American PhD) Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, England. Teaching […]
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FEATURED ARTWORKPlantation Series While studying in Scotland in the 1950's, Locke encountered members of the California Clay Movement. These artists embraced an experimental approach to working with raw materials in the ceramic arts. Locke incorporated similar techniques in his Plantation Series. View The Full Plantation Series THE WORK OF DONALD LOCKEExplore the Collection
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THE WORK OF DONALD LOCKEChronology 1930 Born in Stewartville, Demerara County, Guyana, South America. Second son of carpenter Donald Locke and primary school teacher Ivy Mae (nee Harper). Locke, Sr., among the top furniture makers on the western Atlantic coast, later sought gold as a pork-knocker – a term coined from prospectors’ staple food-and earned the legendary moniker Dunnamite Dan for his great axe-wielding [...]
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