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Hew Locke

Also known as: Hew Locke; primary name: Locke, Hew
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; British; Guyanese; Male
Life dates: 1959-
Biography: Painter and draughtsman; born in Edinburgh but brought up in Georgetown, Guyana, where his childhood was dominated by images of the Queen; came to England in 1980 to study at Falmouth and later sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London where he was awarded his MA in 1994; engaged with ongoing series of portrait heads of the Royal Family, particularly the Queen, emblematic of empire and the colonial past.
Bibliography: Kris Kuramitsu and Sarat Maharaj."Hew Locke" (exh. cat.), The New Art Gallery Walsall, 29 April-26 June 2005 (first illustrated monograph on the artist with checklist of 132 works). De Gruyter