Lock paints viscerally. Using blowtorches and electric sanders as well as the brush, he ages and wears his canvasses down, making them seem all the more natural. At its core, his work conveys the passage of time; colours, movement and characters that are half-recalled, uncertain.

Whilst at college, Lock won a scholarship award to travel to Rome to explore his interest in the relationship between history, archaeology and the processes of painting, a preoccupation that has fired his work and continues to underpin his practice.

EDUCATION

Education / MA Fine Art (Hons) 1991-97 University of Edinburgh

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

• 2020 solo exhibition “Presence of absence“ Lemon Street Gallery, Cornwall

• 2020 London Art Fair, Lemon Street Gallery, Cornwall

• 2019 solo exhibition “Now/Here” Cadogan Contemporary London

• 2019 solo presentation Kunst Rai Amsterdam, “Aspect” Twelve Twelve Gallery, Den Haag NL

• 2019 solo exhibition “In situ” &Gallery, Edinburgh

• 2018 solo exhibition “Unremembered” Twelve Twelve Gallery, Den Haag NL

• 2018 solo exhibition Cadogan Contemporary, London

• 2018 group exhibition “Juxtaposition” Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne

• 2017 solo exhibition “Presence” Twelve Twelve Gallery, Den Haag NL

• 2017 solo exhibition Cadogan Contemporary, London

• 2017 solo exhibition “Liminal Space” Twelve Twelve Gallery, Den Haag NL

• 2017 solo exhibition Wimbledon Fine Art, London

• 2017 group presentation Art the Hague, Twelve Twelve Gallery, Den Haag NL

• 2016 group exhibition “Art at Home” Jenna Burlingham Fine Art, London

• 2016 group exhibition “Drawn” RWA Bristol

• 2013 solo exhibition “Trace Element” Studio 226 Chelsea Design Centre, London