Hew Locke: Passages

For the past thirty years, Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke has used strategies of appropriation to reveal and upend the visual codes of imperialism. Incorporating multiple media, including sculpture, photography, drawing, and found objects, Locke's oeuvre has been described as a 'postcolonial baroque' that deconstructs and reimagines deeply entrenched iconographies of British sovereignty. This exhibition showcases the full spectrum of Locke's practice, bringing together distinct bodies of work that examine the historical processes of colonialism through the present-day legacies of global market capitalism, migration, and diaspora.